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| Device of repetition where the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. |
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| An inversion of the usual, normal or logical order of parts of a sentence. |
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| The word to which a pronoun refers. |
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| A concise statement of a principle given in pointed words. |
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| A balance in which the second part is balanced against the first part, but reversed. |
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| Comparing two very dissimilar things. |
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| An argument or truncated syllogism in which one of the propositions, usually a premise, is understood, but not stated. |
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| Placing two ideas side by side that are completely different. |
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| An understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite. |
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| An attack against the character instead of the issue. |
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| a pseudoargument that offers as proof the claim the argument itself exits to proof. |
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| An unwarranted assumption that two things similar in some res pects are also similar in all other ways. |
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| The introduction of irrelevant evidence to support a claim. |
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| The use of an irrelevant point to divert attention from the real issue. |
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| Failure to provide evidence showing that one event will lead to a chain of events of a catastrophic nature. |
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| An easily refuted objection used to divert attention from the real issue. |
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| A term used for a dramatic poem in which the form of a drama is used to express lyric themes instead of relying on a story as the basis of the action. |
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| is a figure of speech characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. |
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| words, objects, phrases, or actions that unify the work. |
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| The repetition of a conjunction. |
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