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| a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.. |
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| a dangerous and irreversible course |
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| an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc. |
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1.the position or relation of parallels.
2.agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel. |
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1.an oblique or diagonal line of direction, especially across a woven fabric.2.a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of aquestion; prejudice.
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| Arguing over any known fact and disagree to make that statement false. |
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| expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia |
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| The definition of a hasty generalization is a generalization that is reached by consulting an insufficient sample of a phenomenon. A hasty generalization is a type of fallacy, or a mistake in reasoning, which leaves an argument incomplete or invalid. |
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Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc |
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| the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation |
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| to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due |
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| the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument |
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| A comparison that is used to demonstrate a point but which is invalid (i.e., the issues being compared are not properly comparable). |
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When a writer tries to persuade the audience by appealing to their emotions. The
aspects of a literary work that elicit sorrow or pity from the audience. An appeal to
emotion that can be used as a means to persuade. Over-emotionalism can be the result of
an excess of pathos. |
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| is a kind of reasoning that constructs or evaluates general propositions that are derived from specific examples. |
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| is the process of reasoning from one or more general statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion. |
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| reasonably verifying a proof of a claim |
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| a claim of non-factual information based on a person's experience. |
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| Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason. |
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| the act of developing the intellectual and moral falculties especially by education. |
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| a falllacy in logical arguement |
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| capable of being believed |
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| the foundation or basis on which a belief or action rests; reason or cause: |
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Refutation (counterargument) |
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| the state of being convinced |
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| persuade by the use of reasoning. |
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| a type of propaganda technique which is when the reader is persuaded ro think or buy something. |
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| a type of writing used to influence or persuade. |
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| deliberty spsread ideas, rumors, or information. |
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| false dilemma fallacy that unfairly limits you to only two choices |
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| understatement especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, |
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| To prove by evidence or argument |
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| use of ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead |
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| Moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather he or she's thought or emotion. |
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| substitution of mild, indirect, or vague expression for pne thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt |
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| Use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning |
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| A statement or proposition that seems to self-contradicte but is true |
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| repetition of words or word at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses or sentence |
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| evidence that relates to or is based on an experience or an observation. Any type of investigation that is based on fact or experience is preceded by the use of hypothesis and search for evidence supported by the hypothesis. |
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