Ĺanguage Proficiency

• Adjective

  DQOSASCOMP

  DETERMINER

  QUANTITY

  OPINION

  SIZE

  AGE

  SHAPE

  COLOR

  ORIGIN

  MATERIAL

  PURPOSE
• Adverb of manner

  MANNER

  TIME

  PLACE

  FREQUENCY DEGREE
• Alliteration

  Duplication of a consonant sound
• Anaphora

  "I came, I saw, I conquered"
• Antithesis

  Opposing lines somewhat balanced
• Apostrophe

  When a person absent and being spoken
• Assonance

  A repetition of vowel sounds
• Chiasmus

  Joined together through reversing the syntax
• Euphemism

  Replaces a word to make it more polite
• Hyperbole

  Exxagerated description
• Irony

  Stress the opposite meaning of a word
• Litotes

  Underplay positive with a negative
• Metaphor

  "The streetd of Chennai are a furnace."
• Metonymy

  One word replaced another

  "Crown"
• Onomatopeia

  Replicate sounds
• Oxymoron

  Contradictory terms
• Paradox

  "If you wish to preserve your secret,wrap it up in your frankness"
• Personification

  Adding a human trait to an onanimate object
• Pun/Paranomasia

  "My son wanted a scooter. When I told him they are too dangereous,he mpoed aroundthe house.
• Simile

  Like or as
• Synecdoche

  Whole vehicle as WHEELS
• Understatement

  Just a scratch referring to a LARGE DENT
• Ad hominem

  "Dilawan lang ang may aywa kay Panginoong Duterte"
• Argumentum Ex Silentio

  Ignorance about something
• Appeal to Tradition

  Practice tradition
• Argumentum ad Verecundiam

  Expert or authority as the bases of the argument
• Argumentum ad Consequentiam

  Concludes a premise usually a belief as either true or false
• Argumentum ad Populum

  If you were a true American, you would support the rights of people
• Bandwagon Fallacy

  All people
• Assuming the answer

  Prove what is validated within the claim
• Circular Reasoning

  Restate the argument
• False Dichotomy

  You either like it oyr you don't
• Suppresed Evidence

  Accurate description
• Hasty Generalizations

  Rushing to a conclusion
• Non Sequitur

  There occured an increase of births during the full moon. Therefore,full moons cause birth rates ro rise.
• Post hoc,ergo Propter hoc

  It happened after so it was....
• Red herring

  Oppsing arguments rather than addressinv them
• Reification Fallacy

  IQ test as an actual measure of intelligence
• Slippery Slope

  A change in procedure law, or action
• Straw Man

  Creating a false scenario