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Logical Fallacies

Question:

Name the fallacy:

"If we legalize gay marriage, next thing you know they'll start marrying goats."

Answer: Slippery Slope

Question:

Name the fallacy:

"As everyone knows, you can't truly see the Grand Canyon unless you're Garcia Lopez de Cardenas"

Answer: Bandwagon Argument

Question:

Name the fallacy:

"Jesus is the path to enlightenment because he has the answer to all your questions."

Answer: Oversimplification

Question:

Name the fallacy:

"The Bible states that God is infallible, and since God created the Bible, it must also be infallible."

Answer: Begging the question/ Circular Reasoning

Question:

Name the fallacy:

"We shouldn't be spending billions of dollars on the space program with the threat of ISIS at our borders."

Answer: Slanting

Rhetorical Devices

Question:

What is the rhetorical device used in the following sentence?

"I've had a perfectly lovely evening, but this wasn't it."

Answer: Invective: The use of abusive or highly critical language in order to attack a topic.

Question:

What is the rhetorical device used in the following sentence?

“Why nature need not what thou gorgeous wear’st, which scarcely keeps the warm”.

Answer: Synesthesia: A technique used to present ideas, characters, or places in a manner that appeals to more than one sense.

Question:

What is the rhetorical device used in the following sentence?

“Three may keep a secret, it two of them are dead”.

Answer: Aphorism: A short, witty statement of a general truth that often is applied to philosophical or moral situations.

Question:

What is the rhetorical device used in the following sentence?

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”.

Answer: Antimetabole: The repetition of a phrase or a word in reverse order, with the same words, to contrast the meaning from the previous statement.

Question:

What is the rhetorical device used in the following sentence?

“All clownfish live underwater, and all fish underwater have gills, therefore, all clownfish have gills”.

Answer: Syllogism: A form of deductive reasoning that consists of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion.

Modes of Development

Question: What type of essay explains a topic?
Answer: Expository

Question: What type of essay is characterized by a lot of imagery?
Answer: Description

Question: What is the function of a narrative essay?
Answer: To effectively tell a story or a series of related events

Question:

What type of essay would the following fall under:

"With the rise of MNCs, production now takes place in very complex and coordinated steps, which are..."

Answer: Process Analysis

Question: What type of essay is most prone to logical fallacies?
Answer: Persuasive/ Argumentative

Famous Essays

Question:

What is the tone of Huckleberry Finn?

Answer: Satirical

Question:

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Who wrote this, and in what book?

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Question: Which writer is looked seen as the opposite of Ernest Hemingway in terms of style?
Answer: David Foster Wallace, whose style of maximalism contrasted drasticalle with Hemingway's minimalism

Question: What are the man and the woman's name in Hills Like White Elephants? What does this reveal about the author's style?
Answer: Their names are not specified in the story. This is because Ernest Hemingway, a minimalist, chose to put only the important details in the story, in the form of dialogue. He limited the amount of exposition in his stories.

Question: Who, similar to Mark Twain, uses "humor" to tackle basic questions of human existence?
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

Grammar

Question:

What is the adverb in the following sentence?

“Martha swiftly ran to the store.”

Answer:

Swiftly

Question:

What type of sentence is the following:

Though Harry enjoyed going to the mall, he stayed home and he read a book.

Answer: Complex- Compound

Question:

Which of the following cannot stand as a sentence on its own: prepositional phrases, clauses, independent clauses, simple sentences?

Answer: Phrases

Question:

(Whom/Who) did he hire for the position of professional wrestler?

Answer: Whom

Question:

Which one of the following words is not possessive

Their, his, My, It’s,

Answer: It's