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AP Lang Rhetorical Terms
Includes language/syntax devices as well as logical fallacies. Includes the term and examples (does not include definitions).
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11th Grade
12/10/2017

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Synecdoche
Definition
ex) Farmer Jones has two hundred head of cattle and three hired hands.
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Metonymy
Definition
ex) This land belongs to the crown.
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colloquial language
Definition
ex) You better hop to it if we're going to make it in time for the movie.
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Litotes
Definition
ex) Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn't do your car any good.
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paradox
Definition
ex) "Cowards die many times before their deaths." (Julius Caesar)
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euphemism
Definition
ex) yesterday, the man went to his eternal rest.
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dysphemism
Definition
ex) "the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster" (Noah Sweat's "Whiskey Speech").
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allusion
Definition
ex) "Pontius Pilate, God will not let you wash your hands of this!" (John Proctor, The Crucible)
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paralipsis
Definition
ex) "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice."
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polysyndeton
Definition
ex)"There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and ditches, and gardens, at the very door of the Railway."
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asyndeton
Definition
ex) "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (On the Road)
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parallel structure
Definition
ex)"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." (Joseph Addison)
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anaphora
Definition
ex) "I'm not afraid to die...I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love."
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loose sentence(cumulative)
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ex) Aruba is a vacationer's paradise, with its pristine beaches, sun-drenched days, and glorious breathtaking sunsets.
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periodic sentence
Definition
ex)"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."
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Zeugma
Definition
ex)She broke his car and his heart.
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Syllepsis
Definition
ex)"You most likely need a thesaurus, a ridiculing grammar book, and a grip on reality." (Margaret Atwood)
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tricolon
Definition
ex)"Be sincere, be brief, be seated." (FDR)
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antithesis
Definition
ex)"Success makes men proud; failure makes them wise."
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chiasmus
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ex)I lead the life I love; I love the life I lead.
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ellipsis
Definition
ex)There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them."
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epistrophe
Definition
ex)The cars do not sell because the engineering in inferior, the quality of materials is inferior, and the workmanship is inferior.
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inverted syntax
Definition
ex)"In silent night when rest I took,/For sorrow near I did not look..." (Anne Bradstreet)
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deductive reasoning
Definition
ex)Premise: This dog always barks when there is someone at the door, and the dog didn't bark.
Conclusion: There's no one at the door.
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syllogism
Definition
ex)All dogs are mammals. A Labrador is a dog. Therefore, a Labrador is a mammal.
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inductive reasoning
Definition
ex) Crimes are often solved through inductive reasoning. Evidence is gathered and analyzed, and then a theory or generalization is made about who did it.
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false analogy
Definition
ex) Letting prisoners out on early release is like absolving them of their crimes.
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argument ad hominem
Definition
ex)You can't trust Jones's theory of electromagnetic particles because he's a communist.
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non sequitur fallacy
Definition
ex)Tens of thousands of Americans have seen lights in the night sky which they could not identify. The existence of life on other planets is fast becoming certainty.
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either/or fallacy
Definition
ex)If you don't support the war, then you are on the side of the terrorists.
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sweeping generalization
Definition
ex)Democrats and Republicans never get along with each other, so you and Steve will not like each other since he is a Republican and you are a Democrat.
(Kind of like a stereotype)
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post hoc, ergo prompter hoc
Definition
ex)Roosters crow right before the sunrise. Therefore, the roosters' crowing causes the sun to rise.
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argument ad populum
Definition
ex)A desire for tougher gun control laws is just out of step with true American patriotism and values.
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slippery slope fallacy
Definition
ex)If we legalize marijuana, then more people would start to take crack and heroin, and we'd have to legalize those too. Before long, we'd have a nation full of drug-addicts on welfare.
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begging the question
Definition
ex) Ghosts are real because I've had experiences with them myself.
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circular reasoning
Definition
ex)If such actions were not illegal, then they would not be prohibited by law.
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straw man fallacy
Definition
ex)Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us completey defenseless like that.
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hasty generalization
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ex)My roommate said her philosophy class was hard, and the one I'm in is hard, too. Philosophy is just impossible to understand!
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reductive fallacy (oversimplification)
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ex)The school shooters played violent video games, so that caused them to be violent.
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red herring
Definition
ex)There is a lot of commotion regarding saving the environment. We cannot make this world an Eden. What will happen if it does become an Eden? Adam and Eve got bored there!
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false authority
Definition
ex)According to Oprah, Gleem is the best toothpaste for your teeth.
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argument ad populum/bandwagon
Definition
ex)Hundreds of millions of people have been Christians, devoutly following it and even dying for it. How could that be possible if Christianity weren't true?
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