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Logical Fallacies

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

11th Grade

CCSS covered

Logical Fallacies
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Either you can save your money to buy a new car for yourself, or you can just take an Uber around for the rest of your life.

False Dilemma

Appeal to Fear

Personal Attack

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is wrong with Tanya? She only has five hundred dollars saved and she’s going away to college next year. That would be like letting my four-year-old brother go to Russia by hisself.

False Dilemma

Stereotype

False Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If we can send a woman into outerspace and communicate with them while they are there, then surely we can learn to communicate with one another in our state.

Stereotype

False Analogy

Categorical Claim

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Either you text your friend or you don't have any fun at all.

False Dilemma

Categorical Claim

Personal Attack

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Select the fallacy being used.

bandwagon

either/or

hasty generalization

false analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Identify the fallacy.

slippery slope

strawman

false analogy

ad populum (bandwagon)

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Kids need more freedom of speech," a student says. "Really," a teacher replies. "We teachers can't even talk about which candidates we support." This is

inductive reasoning

ad hominem

red herring

slippery slope

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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