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Arguments or rhetorical devices
persuasive vocabulary
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English
10th Grade
01/29/2013

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Fallacies
Definition

A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference

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slippery slope
Definition

a course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to another with unintended consequences

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Appeal

Definition

An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.

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Parallelism

Definition

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

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Bias

Definition

preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.

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argument of fact
Definition
 A fact or statement put forth as proof or evidence; a reason[image]
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Sentimental appeals

Definition

expressive of or appealing to sentimentespecially the tender emotions and feelings, as lovepity, ornostalgia

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Hasty generalizations

Definition

Hasty generalization is a logical fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient

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Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc

Definition

the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation.

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claim
Definition

to assert and demand the recognition of

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Concession
Definition

Something, such as a point previously claimed in argument, that is later conceded

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Faulty analogy

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ssuming either that properties shared between two situations or existents will continue to be found indefinitely or that shared.[image]
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Pathos
Definition

A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow

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 Inductive logic

Definition

is a system of evidential support that extends deductive logic to less-than certain inferences

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