AP Language Rhetorical Fallacies Flashcards

6600972183	Ad hominem	Criticizes the person who made the comment rather than the idea	0
6600972184	Argument from authority	Temptation to agree with the individual based on their fame or character	1
6600972185	Appeal to ignorance	Whatever has not been proven false, must be true	2
6600972186	Hasty generalization	Deliberately leads reader to a conclusion by providing insufficient, selective evidence	3
6600972187	Non sequitur	Means "It doesn't follow"; a statement that does not logically relate to what comes before it	4
6600972188	False dichotomy	Consideration of only the two extremes when there are one or more indermediate possibilities	5
6600972189	Slippery slope	Suggestion of dire consequences from minor causes	6
6600972190	Faulty casualty	Setting up of a cause and effect relationship when none exists Ex: Violent crime among adolescents has risen in the past decade, and that is the result of increased sales of violent video games	7
6600972191	Straw man	An oversimplification of an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack	8
6600972192	Sentimental appeal	Attempts to appeal to the hearts of readers so they forget to use their minds	9
6600972193	Red herring	Shifts attention away from an important issue by introducing an issue that has no logical connection	10
6600972194	Scare tactics	Frightens readers or listeners into agreeing with the speaker	11
6600972195	Bandwagon appeal	Encourages the listener to agree with a position because everyone else does	12
6600972196	Dogmatism	The speaker presumes that his or her beliefs are beyond question Ex: logic = I am correct because I am correct	13
6600972197	Equivocation	Telling part of the truth but not the whole truth	14
6600972198	Faulty analogy	Illogical, misleading comparison between two things	15