Logical, emotional, ethical fallcies

Identify the words that create a fallacy (maybe more than one group of words). Identify which fallacy(ies) is created.

Joe and Peach are arguing over Beck.

Joe: "I know what you are doing."

Peach: "W...w...what are you talking about? You don't know anything! You're a moron!"

Joe: "I saw the pictures!"

Peach pauses, looking down as she thinks. "What pictures? How did you even see those... you stole my lap top, didn't you?"

Joe: "Don't change the subject! First, you friended her. Then you spent time with her. You are obsessed now. You won't be happy until you are her!"

Peach: "Shut up you @$$hole!"

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Which fallacy does this excerpt from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird illustrate?

Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

• None of the above

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Explain how this excerpt illustrates a fallacy. Use specific words to support your answer.

Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

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Which fallacy does the passage demonstrate? What part of the quote proves it?

“You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.”

― Joe Abercrombie, Red Country

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Create your own example of a situation or conversation that illustrates one of the fallacies. Must be at least five sentences.

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Which fallacy is illustrated in this tweet?

Wacky @NYTimesDowd, who hardly knows me, makes up things that I never said for her boring interviews and column. A neurotic dope!

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

• None of the above

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Fill in the blank. ____________ leads to a ridiculous conclusion.

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What do you think is the most convincing fallacy?

• Ad hominem

• Slippery slope

• Bandwagon

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Which fallacy is demonstrated?

• Bandwagon

• Ad Hominem

• Slippery Slope

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What fallacy is demonstrated in this ad?

• Slippery Slope

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon

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