Fallacious Me
If we allow one team to leave early, we have to be fair and apply the same rule to everyone. Before you know it, kids will leave early for everything and we won't have any order.
slippery slope
We shall fight on the shores; we shall fight by air and sea; we shall fight until we are victorious!
anaphora
“With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself here.”-James by Percival Everett, p. 93
anaphora
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
The "S" in Space
Speaker
After a scientist delivers a long, fact-filled speech about the dangers of global warming, a news reporter says, "So what you're saying is that we're already doomed".
Strawman fallacy
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
antithesis (though juxtaposition is acceptable)
Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, till he hath at least some glympse [sic] of hope, that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice.-from “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
paralipsis, a type of verbal irony
"Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time"
Ben Franklin (his autobiography)
Choices (ex: rhetorical strategies)
When the newly-named Darth Vader tells Obi Wan either he's with him, or he's an enemy.
False dichotomy
The flowering fruit of our efforts shall blossom upon the new earth, growing into a new field of opportunities rife with success.
(extended) metaphor
Frank McHart, constable of Bluebird Hole, reacting to James refusing to wear his shoes and then referring to slaves: “Dumb…They’re all dumb. Simple. That’s a better word. Simple. This here little hamlet is simple, but I don’t mean it in the same way.”-from James by Percival Everett, page 198.
hasty generalization
"So when we see him staggering around later acting like a fool, will that be an example of proleptic irony or dramatic irony?"
Percival Everett
The "E" in "Space"
Exigence
You shouldn't smoke because smoking is something you should never do.
Circular reasoning
"I am no prophet, and here is no great matter"
-T.S. Eliot
litote
Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. -President Bush when speaking before Congress, 2001
False dichotomy
I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God."
Ralph Waldo Emerson from "Nature".
The "A" in "Cat"
Appeals (pathos, ethos, logos)
Walden : Into the Wild :: Huck Finn : James
False analogy
"Meir Katz, a colossus, wore children's pants."
-Elie Wiesel, Night
Hint: Use a device besides metaphor.
Allusion
“Like the marmots in the surrounding hills, it [the pond] closes its eyelids and becomes dormant for three months or more. Standing on the snow-covered plain, as if in a pasture amid the hills, I cut my way first through a foot of snow…” -from Walden by Henry David Thoreau (note: another device besides simile)
Analogy
"White snow, white clouds, white nothingness."
Mimi Zieman, Tap Dancing On Everest
SPACE CAT