Types of fallacies in a speech

Question 1

To attack the person, rather than the fact.

Answer 1

Personal attack

Question 2

To say that many people do it.

Answer 2

Bandwagon

Question 3

To compare two facts that are distant from one another.

Answer 3

False cause

Question 4

To force you to choose either black or white when gray is an available alternative.

Answer 4

Black or white

Question 5

To include too many questions embedded in one.

Answer 5

Loaded question

Question 6

To use a vague reference of a personal experience.

Answer 6

Anecdotal

Question 7

To use 3 traps or more at a time.

Answer 7

Fallacy, fallacy

Question 8

To refute an argument that was not presented by that opponent.

Answer 8

Strawman

Question 9

To manipulate pathos.

Answer 9

Appeal to emotion

Question 10

To use a relatively small first step that leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant, usually negative effect.

Answer 10

Slippery slope

Question 11

To make an argument by beginning with an assumption that what you are trying to prove is already true.

Answer 11

Circular reasoning

Question 12

To infer that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole.

Answer 12

Composition

Question 13

To make you think that even a child can understand it.

Answer 13

Common sense

Question 14

To use ignorance to take down a claim.

Answer 14

Personal incredulity