Logical Fallacies
Figurative Language
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Define the Underlined Word
Do you even English?
100

Which fallacy is used in this argument?

  • Running a red light is fine since people do it all the time. 

Bandwagon

100

What is a simile?

Comparing two things using like or as

100

What is logos?

Appeal to logic

100

Define the italicized word: 

In one respect I'll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households' rancor to pure love.

deep, bitter resentment

100

What do you call the main idea that pervades a work of literature and is universal? 

Theme

200

What is a red herring? 

a misleading piece of information that does not have to do with the argument at hand

200

Which figurative language is used here?

The tall trees were curtains that surrounded us during our picnic.

Metaphor

200

Which appeal is used in this speech?

"I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.” 

Pathos

200

Define the italicized word:

Carlos found himself in a quandary: should he choose mint chocolate chip or cookie dough?

a perplexed, unresolvable state

200

Correctly label this diagram:


A: Exposition

B: Rising Action

C: Climax

D: Falling Action

E: Resolution 

300

What is the definition of logical fallacies?

False arguments that may seems strong but have no real evidence

300

What is a hyperbole?

an extreme exaggeration 

300

Ethos appeals to the audience through...

credibility, authority, trustworthiness.

300

What is the meaning of the italicized word? 

Jill became extremely acerbic and began to cruelly make fun of all her friends.

biting, bitter in tone or taste

300

Which punctuation goes in the blank?

You asked for forgiveness _ he granted it to you.

semicolon ;

400

What fallacy is used here? 

"Don't listen to him! He has a coffee stain on his tie!" 

Ad Hominem 

400

This is an example of which figurative device: My father's thoughtless idea landed him in the middle of the lake without a life jacket.

Oxymoron

400

Which appeal is being used in the speech below: 

"I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my father's house to believe in democracy. 'Trust the people.' That was his message. I used to see him cheered at meetings and in the streets by crowds of workingmen way back in those aristocratic Victorian days when as Disraeli said 'the world was for the few, and for the very few.'"

Ethos

400

Define the italicized word: 

That man wearing the dark suit and dark glasses is so enigmatic that no one even knows his name.

mystifying, cryptic

400

What does connotation mean?

The feeling that a word invokes

500

Which fallacy is used here? 

If a black cat crosses your path, something bad will happen to you. 

Post Hoc

500

"Raining cats and dogs" is an example of which figurative device? 

Idiom

500

What is rhetoric? 

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

500

Define the italicized word: 

I know you had trouble with the last test, but because your mistakes were highly idiosyncratic, I’m going to deny your request that the class be given a new test.

peculiar to one person; highly individualized

500

What are the 9 parts of speech?

noun, adjective, adverb, verb, pronouns, preposition, interjection, conjunction, articles