Category - Example Sentences

Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which a speaker says one thing and means the opposite, as...

Understatement is a figure of speech in which a speaker makes something sound smaller or less...

Tautology is a rhetorical device in which a speaker says the same thing twice in different words...

Straw man fallacy is a logical fallacy in which a speaker attacks a distorted version of an...

Spoonerism is a form of wordplay in which a speaker swaps the first sounds of two words, as when...

Slippery slope is a logical fallacy in which one step is claimed to set off a chain ending in an...