Rhetorical Strategies and Logical Fallacies

Question 1

An inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence?

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Hasty generalization

Question 2

A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it?

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Appositive

Question 3

Assuming that because things are alike in one or more respect, they are alike in other respects

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Faulty Analogy

Question 4

When a speaker directly address someone/something that is not present in the poem?

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Apostrophe

Question 5

When someone tries to win support for an argument by exploiting their opponent feeling of guilt

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Appeal to pity

Question 6

The assumption that a statement must be true if it can not be proven false?

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Appeal to ignorance

Question 7

To deny that a moral comparison can be made of two sides in a conflict?

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Moral equivalency

Question 8

A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is different from it

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Analogy

Question 9

When someone argues that a person holds a view that is actually what the other person believes?

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Strawman

Question 10

A literary device that includes statements,that don't follow the principles of logic and reason

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Non Sequitur

Question 11

A figure of speech that refers to a well-known event or person.

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Allusion

Question 12

To express a conclusion that is based on the absence of historical documents, not the presence.

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Argumentum ex silentio

Question 13

Irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention off the original issue

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Red Herring

Question 14

A word choice, or a style of speaking that a writer, speaker, or character uses?

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Diction

Question 15

A response to a person's character rather than the logic or content of the argument?

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Ad Hominem

Question 16

When does the audience or reader understand the events that surpass that of its characters?

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Dramatic Irony

Question 17

A quality of an experience in life, of a work of art, that stirs up emotions?

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Pathos

Question 18

When a speaker says something contradictory to what they intends to say?

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Verbal Irony

Question 19

A play on words that use a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings?

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Pun

Question 20

An error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid?

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Logical Fallacy

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