Rhetorical Devices & Logical Fallacies

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

• Anecdote

• Simile

• Rhetorical Question

• Metaphor

When an argument only gives you 2 choices to choose from, but there are really more...

• slippery slope

• either/or

• circular reasoning

• bandwagon

Appeals to emotion

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

"It does not follow" - this argument doesn't make sense...

• hasty generalization

• non sequitur

• slippery slope

• bandwagon

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

• Analogy

• Anecdote

• Rhetorical Question

• Repetition

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

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

• Rhetorical Questions

• Simile

• Repetition

• Allusion

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

• circular reasoning

• bandwagon appeal

• non sequitur

• slippery slope

Mistakes in reasoning are called_________.

• logical fallacies

• logical lapses

• rhetorical devices

• reasoning issues

an argument that distracts you from the real issue

• circular reasoning

• slippery slope

• bandwagon

• red herring