Rhetorical Devices & Logical Fallacies

Appeal to logic, including facts and statistics

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Appeals to emotion

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• The Bandwagon Fallacy

• Circular Reasoning

• slippery slope

• non sequitur

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Mistakes in reasoning are called_________.

• logical fallacies

• logical lapses

• rhetorical devices

• reasoning issues

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

A logical fallacy that tries to prove an argument...with its own argument.

• circular reasoning

• bandwagon appeal

• non sequitur

• slippery slope

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

• Rhetorical Questions

• Simile

• Repetition

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• Anecdote

• Simile

• Rhetorical Question

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison to one situation to another situation ("I need my phone like fish needs WATER!")

• Analogy

• Anecdote

• Rhetorical Question

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Turns a minor event into a major catastrophe...

• bandwagon

• red herring

• circular reasoning

• slippery slope

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D