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| An appeal to authority, credibility, or what is right. |
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| An argument that states something is true simply because it hasn't been proven false. |
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| A repeat of the opening word or phrase at the end of the sentence to emphasize an idea. |
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| An attack on the person rather than the issue at hand. |
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| When two of more elements in a sentence are tied together by the same verb or noun. |
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| The deliberate omission of conjuntions from a series of related independent clauses. |
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| An appeal to reason; fact or statistically based. |
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| Coming to a conclusion that does not follow a logical premise. I went to school today so that's why my teeth hurt. |
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| A direct, often prayer-like address to someone who is not present. |
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| An argument which occurs when the speaker states a claim that includes a word or phrase that needs to be defined before the argument can proceed. |
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| An ABBA syntactical structure rather than the more common parallel ABAB structure. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. |
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| Objecting to an action on the grounds that once it is taken, it will lead ti similar but less desirable condistion until some horrific conclusion is reached. |
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| A brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree |
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| The use of consecutive coordinating conjunctions even when they are not needed. |
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| A pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people. |
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| An argument designed to distract the reader by rasing issues irrelevant to the case. |
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| hypothesis contrary to fact |
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| Assuming history would have been different in a specific way if the fact of history had been changed. |
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| An argument based on the assertion that the argument is valid simply because everyone else believes in the argument. |
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| An observation or claim that is in opposition to your claim or an author's claim. |
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| Modifies the noun next to it. Mr. Olson, the principle at CHS, used to be an english teacher. |
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| The reversal of the natural order of words in a sentence or line of poetry. |
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| A nice way or saying something unpleasant. |
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| The last word of the clause begins the next clause, creating a connection of ideas. In the beginning, God created Heaven and Earth. The Earth was.... |
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| The type of sentence when something happens to someone instead of the use of the active form. Presdident Obama was criticized by the media. |
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| When one word is mistakenly substituted for another. Decoration of Independence |
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| A form of logical argumentation that requires the use of example, almost like science. |
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| An argument using a comparison of two things which are not related. Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit on the head to make them work, so must employees. |
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| An independent clause followed by all sorts of debris, usually dependent clauses. |
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| A sentece with an active verb. |
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| A fallacy; begins with a generalization that is widely accepted as true. All teenager are lazy. |
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| The ending of a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. |
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| Making one idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. |
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| Accepting an argument on the basis of relevant but insuffient information or evidence. Some guys are jerks, so there's something wrong with all guys. |
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| A sentence with several dependent clauses that precede an independent clause. |
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| Also known as either/or. The suggestion that a problem only has two solutions. |
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