Tools and Tips
This device compares two objects with the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
This fallacy involves the intentional misunderstanding of one's argument in order to make refutation seemingly easier
What is strawman fallacy?
If someone were to mention the French Revolution, it would serve as this kind of evidence (CHORES)
what is Histrorical Evidence?
This piece of literature takes place on the East Coast where a wealthy man involves himself into an affair, ending in his own death
who is the Great Gatsby?
This part of the argument finishes the piece, fully closing the argument.
what is the Conclusion?
This device references an outside work of media
What is an allusion?
this fallacy involves making an argument that uses its claim as the only reasoning.
What is circular reasoning?
If someone were to recite and anecdote about how COVID affected them personally, it would serve as this type of evidence (CHORES)
what is Experience?
This story follows the narrative of an Irish family that faces a series of losses and hardship and ends with the eldest son getting absolutely wasted.
What is Angela's Ashes?
This part of the piece opens your entire argument, it introduces the general and relevant parts of the topic and broadly details your argument.
what is the Introduction?
This device involves using a strung-together series of words with the same starting sound
What is alliteration?
This fallacy directly attacks the speaker without acknowledging the argument made by them.
What is ad hominem?
If someone were to quote Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis", it would serve as this type of evidence (CHORES)
what is Reading?
this story follows a town in Colonial America and its hysterical witch hunt
what is The Crucible?
This part of the argument acknowledges the existence of another viewpoint and provides a rebuttal in order to strengthen the author's claim.
what is the Refutation?
this device is an exaggeration of the context in order to prove a claim
What is Hyperbole?
this fallacy uses a series of irrational events to discredit their opponent's argument.
what is the Slippery Slope?
If someone were to cite a research paper done by MIT, it would serve as this type of evidence (CHORES)
what is Science?
This story follows a disadvantaged youth who tries to make it in a white-dominated US
who is Black Boy?
this part of the argument gives the reader context to the topic and develops the following paragraphs
what is the Narration?
This device involves the first phrase or clause being a reversal of the second phrase or clause
A chronological fallacy that states "since event X happened after event Y, then event Y MUST'VE caused event X"
what is Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?
If someone were to apply a concept they learned in a social studies class, the concept would serve as this type of evidence (CHORES)
what is Outside Knowledge?
This short story takes place in the British Raj where an officer falls under the pressure of the local population
what is To Kill an Elephant?
This part of the argument contains ALL of the evidence and appeals. The backbone of the argument.
What is the Confirmation?