AP Language Fallacies

AP Language Fallacies

11th Grade

27 Qs

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AP Language Fallacies

AP Language Fallacies

Assessment

Quiz

English

11th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RI.8.8, RI. 9-10.8, RI.8.1

+7

Standards-aligned

Created by

Margaret Anderson

FREE Resource

27 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees in stores worldwide. They should be hiring veterans and military spouses instead!

slippery slope

either/or

faulty causality

non-sequitur

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

weak analogy

appeal to ignorance

slippery slope

appeal to pity/overly emotional

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Being a movie star gave me the motivation to develop this new diet, which is safer and more effective than conventional diets.

appeal to authority

ad hominem

hasty generalization

straw man

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that as the face of our next president?

appeal to ignorance

weak analogy

appeal to authority

ad hominem

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

People from big cities are not as friendly as those from small towns. I know because I met a person from New York City last year (I live in Snowflake, AZ)

appeal to pity/overly emotional

non-sequitur

faulty causality

hasty generalization

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

an ad hominem attack

is a very effective debate strategy

is always against a popular idea

goes after a person's argument

is an attack on the person, not the argument

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a logical fallacy?

An argument with a premise and a conclusion

An argument that contains an error in thinking

An argument that contains a non-statement

Media Image

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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