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Terms With Examples

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Syllogism
"All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Socrates is mortal"
Deductive Reasoning
"All hard and green apples are sour, this apple is hard and green, therefore this apple is sour."
Major Premise
All creatures of the earth play a natural role in maintaining the ecological stability of an area."
Anecdote
"In 1992, Ernest Hemingway's sons formed Hemingway Ltd. to license the use of his name, image and signature. They received a great deal of criticism when one of the first items licensed was a Hemingway shotgun. "
Anaphora
"Exercise builds stamina in young children; exercise builds stamina in teenagers and young adults; exercise builds stamina in older adults and senior citizens."
Jargon
"While some folks think playing volleyball is old skool, others know it's a way to meet some phat friends and escape the rents for a couple hours."
Oxymoron
"Jumbo Shrimp." Or "When you have to face your best friend in competition, whoever wins feels an aching pleasure."
Irony
"Their center is over 7 feet tall- where do they come up with these little pipsqueaks?"
Inductive Reasoning
"This ice is cold. All ice is cold."
Litotes
"Shutting out the opponents for three straight games is no small feat for a goal-tender."
Symbol
The character of the madwoman in the attic in the novel "Jane Eyre" = women's hidden rage in Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea".
Connotation
"Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider tumbles backward"
Begging The Question
"Animal rights are fine, but humans are more important than animals, and humans have a right to alter ecological habitats to suit their own needs."
Parallelism
"Without enough men, without enough food, still the army was poised, ready to mount the attack."
Minor Premise
"Animals such as deer, raccoons, and skunks, as creatures of the earth, deserve a stable ecological habitat in which to live, as do humans."
Antithesis
"Place your virtues on a pedastal; put your vices under a rock"
Synecdoche
"We decided we could arrange the gym equipment if everyone would lend a hand".
Climax
"Excellent athletes need to be respectful of themselves, their teammates, their schools, and their communities."
Metonymy
"The admissions office claims applications have risen." Or "The central office announced today new regulations for sports night."
Appositive
"Henry Jameson, the boss of the operation, always wore a red baseball cap."
Pun
"The spoiled turkey meat was fowl most foul."
Asyndeton
"i came, i saw, i conquered"
Sarcasm
"Mark Twain once said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
Antimetabole
"you can take the boy out of the country , but you can't take the country out of the boy"
Periphrasis
"That young pop singer thinks she's a real Madonna, doesn't she?" Or "The NY Rangers and the NY Islanders vie to be the best hockey team in the Big Apple."
Epistrophe
"They saw no evil, they spoke no evil, they heard no evil." or "To become a top-notch player, I thought like an athlete, I trained like an athlete, I ate like an athlete."
Anadiplosis
"Mental preparation leads to training; training builds muscle tone and coordination; muscle tone and coordination, combined with focused thinking, produce athletic excellence."

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