AP Language Fallacies

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English
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11th Grade
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Hard
+7
Standards-aligned
Margaret Anderson
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27 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 refugees in stores worldwide. They should be hiring veterans and military spouses instead!
slippery slope
either/or
faulty causality
non-sequitur
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.
weak analogy
appeal to ignorance
slippery slope
appeal to pity/overly emotional
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Being a movie star gave me the motivation to develop this new diet, which is safer and more effective than conventional diets.
appeal to authority
ad hominem
hasty generalization
straw man
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that as the face of our next president?
appeal to ignorance
weak analogy
appeal to authority
ad hominem
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
People from big cities are not as friendly as those from small towns. I know because I met a person from New York City last year (I live in Snowflake, AZ)
appeal to pity/overly emotional
non-sequitur
faulty causality
hasty generalization
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
an ad hominem attack
is a very effective debate strategy
is always against a popular idea
goes after a person's argument
is an attack on the person, not the argument
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.8
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.11-12.8
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a logical fallacy?
An argument with a premise and a conclusion
An argument that contains an error in thinking
An argument that contains a non-statement
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
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