Representing an item but never using it.
False Authority
Predicting without justification that one step in a process will lead unavoidably to a second, generally undesirable step.
Slippery Slope
A quality that allows that readers to interpret a story or other work in more than one way.
ambiguity
A major premise
Warrant
The conclusion of a syllogism
Claim
A form of reasoning that presumes an either or situation.
Black & White Reasoning
An illogical rhetorical fallacy.
Faulty Syllogism
A shortened version of a syllogism that leaves the major premise unstated and consists of "because"
Enthymeme
The repeating of words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences to increase emphasis.
Repetition
anaphora, epistrophe, antistrophe, alliteration, consonance, assonance, parallel syntactic structure, asyndeton
Antistrophe
similar to anaphora but anywhere in a sentence
Epistrophe
part of logos
Data/or Statistics
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
The recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity
Consonance
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).
Assonance