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Rhetorical Devices and Logical Fallacies

Authored by GABRIELLE IDOWU

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 24+ times

Rhetorical Devices and Logical Fallacies
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Appeal to logic, including facts and statistics

pathos

logos

ethos

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Using a speaker's credibility (i.e. celebrity/expert endorsement) to persuade others

ethos

pathos

logos

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Appeals to emotion

pathos

ethos

logos

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The phrase. "Almost everyone that was asked said McDonald's is better than Burger King, so it must be true," represents which fallacy?

Circular reasoning

Bandwagon

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Mistakes in reasoning are called__________________.

logical lapses

reasoning issues

logical fallacies

rhetorical devices

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A logical fallacy that tries to prove an argument by restating the claim as a reason

Bandwagon

circular reasoning

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Words or phrases said over and over to illustrate importance or highlight meaning are usually examples of...

simile

repetition

rhetorical questions

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

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