Attacking your opponent’s character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.
What is an ad hominem attack?
100
These are appeals to ethics and emotion.
What is ethos and pathos?
100
A word that modifies a verb.
What is an adverb?
100
A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
100
A word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later.
What is an antecedent?
200
Introducing an unrelated or invalid point to distract the reader from the actual argument.
What is a red herring?
200
These two devices both have to do with an author's tone. One manifests when using wit or sarcasm to prove a point and the other has to do with saying the opposite of what you mean.
What is satire and (verbal) irony?
200
You would use this punctuation mark when linking two independent clauses.
What is a semi-colon?
200
A sentence with one independent clause and no dependent clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
200
An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
What is a juxtaposition?
300
Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can’t be answered without appearing guilty.
What is a loaded or complex question?
300
Both of these devices have to do with structure. One repeats the same structure in several lines and one repeats the first word in a series of sentences.
What is parallelism and anaphora?
300
This punctuation mark would be used to create a compound adjective.
What is a hyphen?
300
A sentence with multiple independent clauses but no dependent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
300
Suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning.
What is a connotative meaning?
400
Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too; therefore, A should not happen.
What is a slippery slope?
400
Both of these devices have to do with the use of conjunctions. One omits them and one uses them in excess.
What is asyndeton and polysyndeton?
400
If you begin a sentence with a word in noun form ending in "ing," you are utilizing this sentence combining option.
What is a gerund phrase?
400
A sentence in which the independent clause comes first.
What is a loose sentence?
400
A vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
What is invective?
500
Misrepresenting someone’s argument to make it easier
to attack.
What is a straw man?
500
These terms have to do with emphasis. One is an overstatement for exaggeration and one is an understatement for emphasis.
What is hyperbole and litotes?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: This is a word or phrase that directly follows the noun it modifies and gives more information about the noun.
What is an appositive?
500
The independent clause is at the end of a long sentence.