Logical Fallacy Review

Billy - "An apple is a vegetable."  Bobby - "Don't listen to Billy; he failed Spanish class last year. "

• ad hominem
• either/or
• red herring
• bandwagon appeal

My professor, who has a Ph.D. in Astronomy, once told me that ghosts are real. Therefore, ghosts are real.

• appeal to false authority
• red herring
• straw man
• ad hominem

After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending.

• ad hominem
• red herring
• straw man
• sentimental appeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

This image illustrates which logical fallacy?

• false dilemma
• argument from ignorance
• slippery slope
• correlation proves causation

My parents are democrats, and they are good people. Therefore, all democrats must be good people.

• ad hominem
• hasty generalization
• appeal to irrelevant authority
• wishful thinking

If you don't study, you'll fail your test. Then you will do poorly in the class and your GPA will fall. You won't get into a good college, so you'll never get a decent job and you'll end up homeless.

• bandwagon appeal
• shifting the burden of proof
• slippery slope
• argument from ignorance

Justin's mom gets his phone bill and he has gone over the limit. He begins talking to her about how hard his math class is and how well he did on a test today.

• false analogy
• hasty generalization
• red herring
• either/or

This image illustrates which rhetorical appeal?

• ethos
• pathos
• logos

God must exist because every culture has some sort of belief in a higher being.

• appeal to ignorance
• bandwagon appeal
• red herring
• shifting the burden of proof

I believe that when we die, we will spend eternity reading books and learning more about writing composition. I am so comforted by this belief!

• correlation proves causation
• slippery slope
• straw man
• wishful thinking