Wargo Vocab
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- Ad hominem
- appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason.
- Anecdote
- a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical.
- Antecedent
- a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.
- Antithesis
- opposition; contrast
- didactic
- intended for instruction
- ellipsis
- the omission of one or more items from a construction
- epigraph
- an inscription, esp. on a building, statue, or the like.
- invective
- an insulting or abusive word or expression.
- metonymy
- a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related
- parable
- a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- pathos
- the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.
- pedantic
- ostentatious in one's learning.
- reductio ad absurdum
- a reduction to an absurdity; the refutation of a proposition by demonstrating the inevitably absurd conclusion to which it would logically lead.
- synecdoche
- a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.