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Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
What logical fallacy is used?
The NY Daily News offers an amusing list of insults against Donald Trump: “Short fingered Vulgarian,” “Angry Creamsicle,” “Fascist Carnival Barker,” “F*ckface von Clownstick,” “Decomposing Jack-O-Lantern,” “Chairman of the Saddam Hussein Fanclub,” “Racist Clementine,” “Sentient Caps Lock Button,” “Cheeto Jesus,” “Tangerine Tornado,” and perhaps the most creative/literary reference, “Rome Burning in Man Form.”
Ad Hominem
Strawman
Red Herring
Hasty Generalization
What fallacy is this?
someone attacks a position the opponent doesn’t really hold
Red Herring
Appeal to Pity
Strawman
False Dilemma
What fallacy is this?
“Either you love me, or you hate me.”
Red Herring
Appeal to Authority
Hasty Generalization
False Dilemma
What fallacy is this?
“People nowadays only vote with their emotions instead of their brains.”
Red Herring
Strawman
Ad Hominem
Hasty Generalization
What fallacy is this?
In Charlotte Macleod’s The Withdrawing Room. Augustus Quiffen, a lodger at Sarah’s Brownstone home, is killed falling under the train. Seemingly, it was an accident, until Mary Smith tells Sarah that it was a murder, but she cannot identify the murderer. Sarah and Max Bittersohn investigate the matter, and find that the killer had planned the death beforehand, and that he was well-prepared to conceal it.
Strawman
Red Herring
False Dilemma
Appeal to Pity
Informs readers about the day-to-day life of the community. There, readers find human-interest stories and information about upcoming events.
Feature
Editorial
News
Sports
Cites facts such as historical references, statistics, relevant names/facts to bolster credibility.
Covers relevant issues in school, region, national, and even international level.
News
Sports
Features
SciTech
a headline extending across the top of a page
Banner
Lead
Ears
Masthead
a line at the top of all newspaper pages giving the name of the paper and the date of the issue.
Folio
Running Head
Byline
Umbrella head
A prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun by telling what kind or which one.
Participial Phrase
Adverbial Phrase
Adjectival Phrase
Gerund Phrase
She gives students with high marks less homework.
Adjective
Adverb
After the parade, we walked home.
Adjective
Adverb
The game lasted for three hours.
Adjective
Adverb
The students with distinction are from that school.
Adjectve
Adverb
David, who has been with the company for five years, is our new director.
Adjective
Adverb
Princess hid the key where no one could find it.
Adjective
Adverb
The forest fire will not stop unless it rains.
Adjective
Adverb
The committee is eager for volunteers.
Adjective
Adverb
Mallory likes to dance in the rain.
Infinitive
Participle
Gerund
Succeeding is not enough. Others must fail.
Gerund
Participle
Infinitive
Most people at the office were in favor of leaving before 3 p.m.
Subject
Subject Complement
Object of the Preposition
Adjective
Handling toads does not cause warts.
Gerund
Participle
Last week the tree began sprouting blossoms.
Gerund
Participle
INFINITIVE FUNCTIONS:
My grandmother's attempt to skateboard ended in disaster.
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
INFINITIVES
Malcolm struggled hard to free himself.
Adjective
Noun
Adverb
INFINITIVES
To get more votes, I called everyone I knew.
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
GERUNDS
George and Martha now regret renting that vacation cabin in Maine.
Subject
Object
Subject Complement
Object of the Prepositiob
Not a gerund
We saw a large crowd of people running from the accident scene.
Gerund
Participle
By playing the message backwards, you will understand the code.
Gerund
Participle
INFINITIVES
Your attempts to hurt my feelings have been unsuccessful.
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
GERUNDS
Hal considered hitting the ball into left field.
Subject
Object
OP
Subject Complement
INFINITIVES
Bill's primary achievement was to finish the work.
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
what is the literary device in the words “warm wind, the west wind” ?
Assonance
Rhyme
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
There is cool green grass there where men may lie at rest; And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from their nest…
which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
thrushes
fluting
song
nest
"i can read you like a magazine"
Simile
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Irony
The hired hands worked endlessly.
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Synecdoche
Personification
Cause even the stars they burn some even fall to the earth.
Hyperbole
Personification
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
