A fallacy of logic in which the widespread occurence of something is assumed to make it true or right.
What is ad populum fallacy
100
Arrangement of objects according to class
What is classification as a means of ordering
100
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract concept is endowed with human attributes
What is personification
100
A way of wording or expressing things that expresses attitude
What is tone
100
A brief reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature assumed to be sufficiently well known to be recognized by the reader
What is allusion
200
A fallacy of logical arguement which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered, and all but one are assessed and deemed impossible or unacceptable.
What is false dilemma
200
Arrangement in order of the way in which things occur
What is chronological ordering
200
A figure of speech involving a comparison using like or as
What is simile
200
The use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another
What is euphemism
200
A short entertaining account of some happening, frequently personal or biographical
What is anecdote
300
a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove.
What is begging the question
300
Reversing the normal word order of a sentence
What is inverted syntax
300
A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as if it were that thing
What is metaphor
300
Words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing
What is colloquial expression
300
A story in which people, places, and things represent general concepts or moral qualities
What is allegory
400
This fallacy of logic occurs when the reader assumes that an incident that precedes another is gthe direct cause of the second incident.
What is post hoc fallacy
400
a method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics
What is order of importance
400
An extravagent exaggeration of fact, used either for serious or comic effect
What is hyperbole
400
Lively descriptions which impress the images of things upon the mind
What is imagery
400
A comparison between two things in which the more complex is explained in terms of the more simple
What is analogy
500
A fallacy of logic in which a person's character or motive is attacked instead of that person's argument.
What is ad hominem fallacy
500
A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it
What is non sequitur
500
A figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combined
What is oxymoron
500
intentional use of a positive statement with a negative implication