Logical Fallacies
True or False
You can find and analyze the author's use of logical fallacies in the rhetorical analysis prompt (question 2).
What is false?
Which philosopher represented the rhetorical situation as a triangle?
Who is Aristotle?
Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant.
What is a euphemism?
A sentence in which the details appear first and the main part appears at the end.
What is a periodic sentence
Topic, thesis, and theme should be embedded in this essay type.
What is rhetorical analysis (question 2)?
Which fallacy is this?
We elected Johnson president and look where it got us: hurricanes, floods, stock market crashes.
What is post hoc (ergo propter hoc)?
Which rhetorical strategy includes expert opinion, data, and reasoning?
What is logos?
An assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it.
What is a paradox?
contains 2 independent clauses and a dependent clause
(in other words--contains at least two complete sentences and additional dependent clauses)
What is compound-complex sentence?
This is something that an 8/9 essay demonstrates that a 6/7 essay does not.
What is insight and maturity?
Smoking isn't bad for you; my great aunt smoked a pack a day and lived to be 90.
What is hasty generalization?
You build this rhetorical appeal in your argumentative essays when you act as a knowledgeable speaker with first-hand experience.
What is ethos?
The deliberate use of multiple-meaning or similar-sounding word to make a clever joke.
What is a pun?
One sentence that can stand alone. Contains no other dependent clauses (or parts that can't stand alone).
What is a simple sentence?
Having identical or very similar sentence structure. Example: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
What is parallel structure?
What fallacy is this:
Ms. Heitmann is a very smart lady, so when she says that investing in avocados is a good idea, you should totally do it.
What is appeal to false authority?
When you are trying to determine this aspect of a persuasive text, you look at the prompt and consider the speaker, the occasion, and the speaker's purpose.
What is audience?
A question not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no. It is used for effect, emphasis, or provocation, or for drawing a conclusionary statement from the facts at hand.
What is a rhetorical question?
When juxtaposition occurs in a balanced, parallel sentence?
What is antithesis?
Compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one.
What is an analogy?
What fallacy is this:
You should vote to elect Rachel--she has a strong lead in the polls!
What is bandwagon?
This statement in an argumentative text reveals the speaker's point of view on an issue.
What is a thesis?
On the word level (diction), using contrasting words.
What is juxtaposition?
Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. Ex: “But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.” President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
What is asyndeton?
Diction device being used here (from Twitter):
Lawyer: Ma'am, did your boyfriend commit this murder?
Woman: Honey, he can't even commit to this relationship.
What is wit?