Rhetorical Fallacies

"I don't know how Professor Resnick can be such a hard grader.  He's always late for class. "  

• Ad Hominem
• Categorical Claim
• Exaggeration
• Stereotyping

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Why did the blond cross the road?  Because she saw a shoe sale!

• Ad Hominem
• Categorical Claim
• Exaggeration
• Stereotyping

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

When fear is being used as the primary motivator to get others to accept an idea.

• Bandwagon

• Scare Tactic/Slippery Slope

• Stereotyping

• straw man

Attacking the characteristics or beliefs of the person rather than the claim that the person presents.

• Exaggeration

• Red Herring

• Ad Hominem

• slippery slope

An argument is valid because a majority of people accept it.

• Bandwagon

• straw man

• Exaggeration

• red herring

This fallacy is committed when a person draws a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is not large enough. (One person is that way so everyone of that group must be.)

• Categorical Claim

• Hasty Generalization

• Exaggeration

• post hoc

A kind of fallacy that diverts the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue.

• Sterotyping

• False Authority

• Red Herring

• Post hoc

Using an authority (celebrity) as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts.

• False Authority

• Red Herring

• Bandwagon

• straw man

"Can you prove to me that the moon's core is not made of short ribs? Then the moon must be filled with short ribs." This is an example of...

• appeal to ignorance
• causal fallacy
• ad hominem
• slippery slope

"Every time I wear my red pants, I get asked on dates. Therefore, my red pant must get me dates."
This fallacy relating two unrelated things is an example of...

• causal fallacy
• appeal to authority
• red herring
• false dilemma