Logical Fallacies
This logical fallacy support a statement by repeating it in different words.
What is Circular Reasoning?
This is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
This is a personal short story to help support a claim.
What is an Anecdote?
This is extreme exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
This is the author's main point about an issue.
What is a Claim?
This logical fallacy attempts to discredit by attacking the person or group behind the point or idea.
What is Name-Calling?
This is author's word choice.
What is Diction?
This is several words that start with the same consonant.
What is Alliteration?
This is a quote from someone who has something to say about the issue.
What is a Testimony?
This is acknowledging the other side of a point or argument.
What is a Counterclaim?
This logical fallacy suggests that there are only two choice to a situation (a right and wrong choice) but really there are more options.
What is Either/Or Fallacy?
This is a reference to a famous person, place, or event.
What is an Allusion?
This is writing in sentences in a similar, symmetrical manner. Here is an example from the Declaration of Independence: He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
What is Parallelism?
This is the author's attitude towards a subject.
What is Tone?
This appeal shows authority and credibility.
What is Ethos?
This logical fallacy draws conclusions from too little evidence.
What is Hasty Generalization?
This is saying one thing IS another thing (comparison of two unlike things).
What is a Metaphor?
This is where the outcome is different from reaslity.
What is Irony?
This is comparing two unlike things using LIKE or AS.
What is a simile?
This appeal creates strong feelings and emotions.
What is Pathos?
This logical fallacy assumes that because 1 thing happened after another, the first caused the 2nd.
What is False Cause and Effect?
This is a comparison between two things, typically to explain a function. Usually one thing is more complicated and the other is simple. One example would be: a line in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph.
What is an Analogy?
This is when something represents something else.
What is symbolism.
This is holding two things up to compare or contrast them.
What is Juxtaposition?
This appeal uses factual evidence such as statistics to create a sound reasoning.
What is Logos?