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Logical Fallacies Review

Authored by Minju Yeo

English

6th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 7+ times

Logical Fallacies Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Suzy: "Oh come on. Don't be lame. Everyone is doing it!"

Jenny: "I don't know...isn't smoking bad for you?"

This is an example of.....

Hasty Generalization

Bandwagon

Either/Or

Slippery Slope

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

If you don’t do your homework, you’ll fail the class.

If you fail this class, you won’t graduate from school.

If you don’t graduate, you won’t get into college.

If you don’t attend a good college, you won’t get a good job.

If you don’t get a good job, you’ll be poor and homeless.

You don’t want to be poor and homeless, do you?

This is an example of....

Straw Man

Sentimental Appeal

Either/Or

Slippery Slope

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

You can either come with me to the party tonight, or sit home alone, bored out of your mind.

This is an example of...

Either/Or

Slippery Slope

Band Wagon

Straw Man

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

People either like coffee or hate it.

This is an example of...

Ad Hominem

Either/Or

Red herring

Band Wagon

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

I am voting for Smith for President because the rest of my family is voting for him. 

This is an example of...

Hasty Generalization

Straw Man

Bandwagon Appeal

Appeal to False Authority

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Introducing an irrelevant topic to distract from the actual argument

This is an example of...

slippery slope

ad hominem

red herring

straw man

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Arguing that something is true simply because most people believe it

This is an example of...

bandwagon

appeal to authority

begging the claim

hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

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