Don’t pay any attention to Fulke’s views on sexual harassment in the workplace. I just learned that he subscribes to Playboy.

The food-stamp program supports mostly freeloaders. Let me tell you about my worthless neighbor.

You can’t force a kid to become a musician any more than you can force a tulip to become a rose.

Either you are pro-choice on abortion or you are against the advancement of women in our culture

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

For years I suffered from agonizing abdominal itching. Then I tried Jones pills. Almost overnight my abdominal itching ceased. Jones pills works wonders

How can abortion be wrong if millions of people support a woman’s right to choose?

I don’t deserve a B in this course because I am a straight-A student.

We don’t dare send weapons to these guerrillas. If we do, we will next send in military advisers, then a special forces battalion. Finally, we will be in all-out war.

You raise a good question about my support for continuing air strikes in Bosnia. Let me tell you about my admiration

Marijuana is injurious to your health because it harms the body

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Classic Argument

Quiz note cards for classic argument- Mr. C English 102- College

Question	Answer
Vicious ill-willed	malevolence
The quality of being inappropriate in application or expression	infelicity
An active effort to promote human welfare	philanthropy
Awaiting a chance to entrap; treacherous	insidious
Given unearned or without recompense	gratuitous
Erroneous in character	fallacies
An extremely brutal act	atrocity
In a compact, compressed manner	succinctly
Used as a typical example or archetype	paradigmatic
Killed or made unconscious through want of oxygen	asphyxiated
To pound or beat	pummel
Of or depending upon supposition	Hypothetical
Proceeding to what follows without a pause	Segueing
Reasonable grounds for being believed	credibility
somewhat unbalanced mentally	pixilated
To deny responsibility	Disavowal
To contradict or oppose by formal argument	Rebuttal
A debate or grossly inferior imitation	Travesty
Diffused throughout every part	pervasive
possessing guilt or blame	culpability
Ad hominem	Don’t pay any attention to Fulke’s views on sexual harassment in the workplace. I just learned that he subscribes to Playboy.
Hasty generalization	The food-stamp program supports mostly freeloaders. Let me tell you about my worthless neighbor.
False analogy	You can’t force a kid to become a musician any more than you can force a tulip to become a rose.
Either/or reasoning	Either you are pro-choice on abortion or you are against the advancement of women in our culture
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc	For years I suffered from agonizing abdominal itching. Then I tried Jones pills. Almost overnight my abdominal itching ceased. Jones pills works wonders
Bandwagon appeal	How can abortion be wrong if millions of people support a woman’s right to choose?
Slippery slope	I don’t deserve a B in this course because I am a straight-A student.
Circular reasoning	We don’t dare send weapons to these guerrillas. If we do, we will next send in military advisers, then a special forces battalion. Finally, we will be in all-out war.
Red herring	You raise a good question about my support for continuing air strikes in Bosnia. Let me tell you about my admiration
Non sequitur	Marijuana is injurious to your health because it harms the body

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