WorksheetsEthos, Pathos, and Logos-Logical Fallacies and Reasonings
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
"I make good grades and have a high IQ and everything, but I don’t use my head." (Ponyboy)
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"I had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home." (Ponyboy)
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"Johnny had it awful rough at home. It wasn’t his fault he got jumped by the Socs."
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten."
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations." (Ponyboy)
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"I knew it wasn’t any use though—the fight was already going. I had to fight back."
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"The difference between a Soc and a Greaser wasn’t money but feeling—You don’t feel anything, and we feel too violently."
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"Steve Randle was seventeen, tall and lean, with thick greasy hair he kept combed in complicated swirls."
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"We should buy this phone because everyone else has it!"
Ad Hominem
Bandwagon Fallacy
Straw Man
False Dichotomy
"You can’t believe what Jake says about healthy eating—he eats fast food all the time!"
Ad Hominem
Hasty Generalization
False Causation
False Dichotomy
"Either you support school uniforms, or you don’t care about school spirit."
False Causation
Straw Man
False Dichotomy
Bandwagon Fallacy
"Organic food is better because it’s all-natural."
Appeal to Nature
False Dichotomy
Straw Man
Ad Hominem
"My teacher said we should study every day. I guess she wants us to spend every second of our lives reading textbooks!"
Red Herring
Circular Reasoning
Straw Man
False Dichotomy
"This brand of shoes is the best because they make the best shoes."
Circular Reasoning
False Causation
Bandwagon Fallacy
Appeal to Emotion
Which statement is an example of a hasty generalization?
Some students enjoy math more than reading.
Two dogs barked at me, so all dogs are aggressive.
Studying regularly can improve grades.
Many people prefer summer over winter.
Which sentence best defines false causation?
Making a broad claim based on little evidence.
Believing that one event caused another simply because it happened first.
Using emotions instead of facts.
Repeating the same argument again and again.
In Chapter 1, Darry is strict and often yells at Ponyboy. However, he works long hours and takes responsibility for his brothers.
Which statement is the best example of abductive reasoning?
Darry dislikes Ponyboy and wishes he did not live with him.
Darry works long hours, so he must enjoy being away from home.
Because Darry is older, he is always correct.
The most likely explanation for Darry’s strict behavior is that he feels pressure and responsibility as the head of the household.
General rule: Socs and Greasers are rivals and often fight each other.
Specific case: Dally aggressively approaches Cherry and Marcia at the drive-in in Chapter 2.
Which conclusion shows deductive reasoning?
Since Greasers and Socs are rivals, Dally’s behavior toward the Soc girls is influenced by that conflict.
All Greasers behave exactly like Dally.
Cherry will become a Greaser after speaking to Ponyboy.
Dally is rude because he dislikes movies.
In Chapter 1, Ponyboy describes how the Socs jump Greasers, threaten them, and treat them as inferior. Based on these repeated examples, which conclusion is an example of inductive reasoning?
All Socs are cruel and incapable of kindness.
Because Socs attacked Ponyboy, they will attack him again tomorrow.
Since several Socs act violently toward Greasers, Ponyboy concludes that many Socs look down on Greasers.
If someone is rich, then they are automatically a Soc.
In Chapter 2 of The Outsiders, imagine a character responds to a question about staying out past curfew by saying, “Well, at least I’m not like those Socs who only care about money.” What type of logical fallacy is this an example of?
Red Herring
Ad Hominem
False Causation
Hasty Generalization
