Fallacies
Tropes
Schemes
Commonly Confused Words
Cliches
100
Another name for Circular Reasoning
What is Begging the Question?
100
A trope that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
A scheme in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is epistrophe?
100
Word that means a personal sense of right and wrong? (Spell the word, too.)
What is conscience?
100
A drop in the __________
What is bucket?
200
The name of a fallacy that offers only two choices to a complicated dilemma, and one of the choices is a bad option
What is Either/Or?
200
A trope that connects two contradictory terms but is still meaningful.
What is oxymoron?
200
A scheme in which normal word order is changed for emphasis
What is anastrophe?
200
Word that means to receive; to admit. (Spell the word, too.)
What is accept?
200
Better said than __________
What is done?
300
A fallacy that misrepresents the views of an opponent
What is Straw Man?
300
A trope that uses understatement for effect.
What is litotes?
300
A scheme that makes use of contrasting words, phrases, sentences, or ideas for emphasis (generally used in parallel grammatical structures).
What is antithesis?
300
Word meaning to influence. (Spell the word, too.)
What is affect?
300
tried and ___________
What is true?
400
A fallacy we have called "the great butterslide" fallacy.
What is Slippery Slope?
400
A scheme in which a person or an abstract quality is directly addressed, whether present or not.
What is apostrophe?
400
Word meaning director of a school. (Spell the word, too.)
What is principle?
400
at a loss for _______________
What is words?
500
A fallacy that threatens
What is Appeal to Force?
500
A trope in which one substitutes a descriptive word or phrase for a proper noun.
What is periphrasis?
500
A scheme in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is epistrophe?
500
Word meaning bored or disaffected.(Spell the word, too.)
What is uninterested?
500
calm, cool, and _________________
What is collected?
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