Rhetorical Fallacies Practice

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." - Donald Trump

This is an example of:

• Scare tactics

• Slippery Slope

• Moral Equivalence

• Equivocation

"It's time for Obama to make a choice: Lead us or resign."

This is an example of:

• faulty causality

• faulty analogy

• either-or-choices

• stacking the deck

“You should never be late. If you are late once for 5 minutes, next time you’ll be late for 15 minutes, and the next time for 1 hour, and eventually you won’t show up at all.”

This is an example of:

• hasty generalization

• slippery slope

• bandwagon appeals

• red herring

This is an example of:

• non sequitur

• moral equivalence

• dogmatism

• overly sentimental appeals

This is an example of:

• slippery slope

• bandwagon appeals

• hasty generalization

• straw man

This is an example of:

• equivocation

• faulty analogy

• moral equivalence

• appleals to false authority

"It is clear that when we go to war with China, we will win."

This is an example of:

• dogmatism

• red herring

• slippery slope

• appeals to false authority

“He’s not a great athlete; he’s a fraud, a cheat and a liar. That’s why not everybody is ‘happy for Lance Armstrong.'”

This is an example of:

• begging the question

• faulty analogy

• faulty causality

• ad hominem

"I have a degree in theoretical astrophysics, so I know that the Earth is flat."

• stacking the deck

• dogmatism

• non sequitur

• faulty causality

Claiming neither side in World War II was superior because of the British firebombing of Dresden in Germany, or the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. This is despite the fact that Germany started the war in Europe and Japan started the war in the Pacific.

• faulty analogy

• red herring

• moral equivalence

• slippery slope