Three ways to make a claim or state your opinion about an argument in a speech or essay.
What is open, closed, and counterargument thesis?
100
This type of error occurs when two independent clauses are joined together without proper punctuation.
What is a fused or run-on sentence.
100
A fallacy in which the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices.
What is either/or or false dilemma.
200
A clause that cannot stand on its own because it has a subordinating conjunction at the beginning of the clause.
What is a dependent clause.
200
Ethos, pathos, and logos.
What are rhetorical appeals.
200
Evidence based on something the writer knows, there are three of these.
What is first-hand evidence: personal experience, anecdote, and current events.
200
The one thing you cannot use to separate two independent clauses.
What is a comma.
200
This fallacy occurs when someone who has not expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority.
What is appeal to false authority.
300
This cannot stand on its own as a complete sentence because it is missing something.
What is a fragment.
300
An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward.
What is the counterargument.
300
A claim that argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong.
What is a claim of value.
300
A collection of words in which the noun is actively doing the verb.
What is a clause.
300
A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt.
What is begging the question.
400
A collection of words in which the subject is not actively doing the verb.
What is a phrase.
400
A diagram the illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text.
What is Aristotelian Triangle.
400
An approach to analyzing and constructing an argument that has the following components: evidence, claim, warrant or assumption, backing, and reservation.
What is the Toulmin Model.
400
What a phrase is missing.
What is a subject and/or a verb.
400
A fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence.
What is circular reasoning.
500
A type of sentence that has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence.
500
The Greek word for "hostile", this is an aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others.
What is a polemic argument.
500
A logical process whereby the writer reasons from particulars to universals, using specific cases in order to draw a conclusion, which is also called a generalization.
What is induction.
500
This makes a clause dependent on another to become a complete sentence.
What is a subordinating conjunction.
500
Latin for "against the man," this fallacy refers to the specific diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker.