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Logical Fallacies II
Rhetorical Devices
Diction and Tone
Name that Sentence
Name that Free Response
100
Assuming a piece of evidence is true because it is stated as being true
What is circular reasoning or begging the question
100
opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
What is antithesis?
100
showing superiority, patronizing
What is condescending?
100
shorter than 5 words in length
What is a telegraphic sentence?
100
Carefully read the following six sources, including the introductory information for each source. Then synthesize information from at least three of the sources and incorporate it into a coherent, well-written essay that develops a position on the extent to which government should be responsible for fostering green practices.
What is synthesis?
200
A piece of evidence that states something is either one way or another and that no other possible outcomes exist
What is either-or?
200
The artistic elimination of conjunctions in a sentence to create a particular effect
What is asyndeton?
200
indecisive, having mixed emotions
What is ambivalent?
200
asks a question
What is interrogative?
200
The letter below was written by Samuel Johnson in response to a woman who had asked him to obtain the archbishop of Canterbury’s patronage to have her son sent to the university. Read the letter carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how Johnson crafts his denial of the woman’s request.
What is rhetorical analysis?
300
Analogies that are pushed too far to be taken seriously or simply do not make sense
What is faulty analogy?
300
repetition of a concluding word or word endings
What is epistrophe?
300
contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives, misanthropic
What is cynical?
300
contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction (and, but, or) or by a semicolon
What is a compound sentence?
300
The passage below is from The Horizontal World, Debra Marquart’s 2006 memoir about growing up in North Dakota. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the strategies Marquart uses to characterize the upper Midwest.
What is rhetorical analysis?
400
An inference drawn from an insufficient amount of evidence
What is a hasty generalization?
400
A figure of reasoning in which one asks and then immediately answers one's own questions
What is hypophora?
400
instructive
What is didactic?
400
contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses
What is a complex sentence?
400
American essayist and social critic H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) wrote, “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” In a well-written essay, examine the extent to which Mencken’s observation applies to contemporary society, supporting your position with appropriate evidence.
What is persuasive?
500
Changes the subject or brings up an irrelevant argument or piece of evidence
What is a red herring?
500
Clauses with a precise degree of subordination and clear indication of the logical relationship between them--i.e., having subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
What is hypotaxis?
500
narrowly or unimaginatively academic; ostentatiously learned
What is pedantic?
500
makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached--meaning is at the end of the sentence
What is a periodic sentence?
500
Consider the implications of a day on which no goods are purchased. Then write an essay in which you develop a position on the establishment of an annual Buy Nothing Day. Support your argument with appropriate evidence.
What is persuasive?