Logical Fallacies
This fallacy attacks the person instead of the argument.
What is Ad Hominem?
This appeal uses facts, statistics, and reasoning.
What is logos?
This pig becomes the tyrannical leader of Animal Farm.
Who is Napoleon?
This event in 1917 removed Tsar Nicholas II from power.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This is when someone attempts to make an argument, but their reasoning is not actually valid.
What is a logical fallacy?
This fallacy implies something is true because many people believe it.
What is Bandwagon?
The appeal being relied upon here: "If Comrade Napoleon said it, it must be true."
What is ethos?
This pig uses propaganda and persuasive language to manipulate the animals.
Who is Squealer?
This ideology guided the revolution and aimed for a classless society.
What is Communism?
This figurative language compares two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This fallacy uses an authority who isn’t actually an expert on the topic.
What is Appeal to False Authority?
This appeal utilizes the audience's emotional reaction to persuade.
What is pathos?
This character represents Leon Trotsky because he lost a power struggle with Napoleon and was run off of the farm.
Who is Snowball?
This leader rose after Lenin and turned the USSR into a dictatorship.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This part of an essay appears in parentheses and includes the author's last name and page number.
What is an in-text citation?
This fallacy uses fear to manipulate rather than reason.
What are scare tactics?
he appeal being used: "In Beasts of England we expressed our longing for a better society in days to come. But that society has now been established. Clearly this song has no longer any purpose."
What is logos?
The hens rebel when Napoleon demands this be given up.
What are their eggs?
This document and ideology is represented by Old Major's Speech at the beginning of Animal Farm.
What is the Communist Manifesto?
This is what you must do after using a quote to avoid dropping it into your paragraph without explanation.
What is commentary?
This falacy misrepresents logical options, ignoring alternatives.
What is Eithor/Or?
The appeal being relied upon here: "It had not been possible... to bring back [Boxer's] remains, but he had ordered a large wreath to be made and and placed on Boxer's grave."
What is pathos?
This is how Boxer's story ends.
What is being sent to slaughter?
This man became the first leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This word describes the central message or insight of a text.
What is theme?