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A brief reference to a famous person or event—often from literature, history, Greek myth, or the Bible is called
Allusion
I love you more than life itself is an example of
Hyperbole
When the arguer attacks the person and not the argument
Ad Hominem
The repetition of words at the beginning of a line is called
Anaphora
Draws on the authority of widely respected people, institutions, and texts
Appeals to False Authority
He's in between jobs right now
Euphemism
Logical fallacy of claiming that something is true because everyone believes it
Bandwagon
An argument that assumes the very thing it is trying to prove is true
Begging the Question
Only two choices are offered when, really, others exist
Either/or Fallacy
Appealing to the audience’s sense of ethical behavior
Ethos
The repetition of words at the end of a line
Epistrophe
The assumption that if two things are alike in one regard, they must be alike in other ways
Faulty Analogy
Seriously Funny
Oxymoron
Successive words, phrases, clauses expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure
Parallelism
Appealing to readers’ emotions and feelings
Pathos
Logical fallacy in which one event seems to be the cause of a later event because it occurred earlier
Post Hoc
