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| a claim that presents an artificially limited range of choices |
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| A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone something |
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| A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its oppsite |
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| A refutation or contradiction |
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| A satement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasent truth |
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| The characteristics spirit of a culture, era, or community as seen in its beliefs and aspirations |
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| the means of communication, asradio and television, newspaper, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely |
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| A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referrinng to something unpleasent or embarrassing |
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| The expression of one's meaning by using a language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
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| A self-contradictory statement that may be found to be true when investigated |
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| the use of the same word or phrase at the begining of several successive clauses, senteces, lines usaully for emphasis or rhetorical effect. |
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