AP Lang Vocab Set 6 Review

Mixed or conflicting feelings about a topic

• skeptical

• reprove

• impartial

• ambivalent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Not concerned or interested

• impartial

• indifferent

• ambivalent

• skeptical

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An error in reasoning (illogical or irrelevant)

• ambivalent

• reprove

• skeptical

• fallacy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Person A: "I wonder if my sister is mad at me."

Person B: "What do you call a male goose?"

• non sequitur

• post hoc

• slippery slope

• hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

If we don't have a vocabulary unit every week, then the students won't learn any new words, which means they don't well on the ACT or SAT and can't get into a good college.

• ad hominem

• non sequitur

• red herring

• slippery slope

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

6. She didn't study for the test and she did well. Therefore, everyone who doesn't study for the test will do well.

• ad hominem

• red herring

• hasty generalization

• slippery slope

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

To demonstrate that a claim is invalid; to prove someone wrong

• refute

• inductive reasoning

• rebut

• deductive reasoning

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Fallacy often use in advertising that relies on the power of celebrity

• post hoc

• appeal to the bandwagon

• ad hominem

• appeal to authority

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

All spiders have 8 legs. Because tarantulas are spiders, they, too, must have 8 legs.

• slippery slope

• post hoc

• inductive reasoning

• deductive reasoning

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

I tend to catch colds when people around me are sick. Therefore, colds are infectious.

• non sequitur

• deductive reasoning

• slippery slope

• inductive reasoning

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D