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."