Vocab

Question 1

Slippery slope

Answer 1

Adopting one policy or taking one action will lead to a series of other policies or actions also being taken

Question 2

Post HOC ergo HOC proper HOC

Answer 2

a logical fallacy in which a speaker claims something is a cuase just because it happened earlier

Question 3

Hasty generaliztion

Answer 3

Faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence

Question 4

Either/or

Answer 4

Speaker presents 2 extreme options as the only possible choice

Question 5

Appeal to false authority

Answer 5

Someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue cited as ana authority

Question 6

Ad populum (bandwagon)

Answer 6

Evidence presented is “Everyone’s doing it so it must be a good thing to do”

Question 7

Ad hominem

Answer 7

Diverts attention from issue

Question 8

Induction

Answer 8

Specific cases in order to draw conclusion

Question 9

Deduction

Answer 9

Universal truth

Question 10

Claim

Answer 10

States arguments idea

Question 11

Periodic sentence

Answer 11

Main clause withheld until the end

Question 12

Imperetive

Answer 12

Command or urge

Question 13

hortative

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Exhorts urges

Question 14

Cumulative

Answer 14

Main idea at beginning

Question 15

Anaphora

Answer 15

Sub type parallelism

Question 16

Situational irony

Answer 16

Opposite of what’s expected to happen

Question 17

Allusion

Answer 17

Reference to person event or place