Logical Fallacies
Rhetoric
English Language History
Sentence Structure
100

Which fallacy is an oversimplification assuming only  only two alternatives exist when in fact there are more?

Either-or fallacy

100

The thesis in an argument essay

Claim

100

A language that is no longer spoken that was very similar to Old High German

Old English

200

Which fallacy assumes that something or someone is a cause of something else because they or it follows it?

Post hoc or faulty causality

200

Use of logic in rhetoric

Logos

200

Geoffrey Chaucer was the main writer of this language.

Middle English

300

Defending a mistake with another mistake

Two wrongs make a right

300

Use of emotion in rhetoric

Pathos

300

He began writing The Canterbury Tales about 1380.

Chaucer

400

Defending a candidate or a belief simply because of popularity

Bandwagon appeal

400

Art of persuasion

Rhetoric

400

A playwright and poet who was born 500 years after Old English perished as a language

William Shakespeare

500

Guiding principles or beliefs

Ethos

500

Who began the saying, "All's well that ends well"?

Shakespeare

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