Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage
-Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: What explains the mad dash to distribute free condoms in our public schools? The misguided and ridiculous notion that kids are going to have sex no matter what.Loaded question
Weasler
Downplayer
2.Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: Moore and Parker are both getting a little thin on top.
Stereotype
Euphemism
Innuendo
3.Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: Miracle X-K3 battery additive extends the life of your battery by up to 5 years.
Innuendo
Downplayer
Weaseler
4.Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: “[The CIA] instructed security forces in Uruguay, demonstrating torture techniques on beggars taken off the street. These activities, and many hundreds more like them, have been thoroughly documented by government investigations, by the press, and by the testimony of former CIA employees.” —Progressive Student Union
Rhetorical definition
Proof surrogate
Repetition
5.Recognize the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: With her keen instinct for political survival on full alert, Governor Whitman suddenly saw the wisdom of the proposal that she had opposed for so many years.
Innuendo
Downplayer
Weaseler
6.Identify any fallacies that appear in the following passage: “People in Hegins, Pennsylvania, hold an annual pigeon shoot in order to control the pigeon population and to raise money for the town. This year, the pigeon shoot was disrupted by animal rights activists who tried to release the pigeons from their cages. I can’t help but think these animal rights activists are the same people who believe in controlling the human population through the use of abortion. Yet, they recoil at a similar means of controlling pigeons. What rank hypocrisy.” —Rush Limbaugh
Straw man
False dilemma
Ad hominem
7.Identify the false dilemma fallacy that appears in the following passage: You can’t say that he is uneducated. At what point does someone become educated?
Perfectionist fallacy
Line-drawing fallacy
False dilemma
8.Identify any fallacies that appear in the following passage: The administration’s proposal to declare hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land as ‘roadless areas’ is a huge mistake, and I’m against it. The whole point of the proposal—and it will succeed if the President gets his way—is to lock the American people out of those areas.
Straw man
Ad hominem
Appeal to emotion
9.Identify any fallacies that appear in the following passage: The police asked the neighbors on both sides of the Owens’s home whether they’d ever seen either of them do any drugs. They all agreed they hadn’t, so it’s a pretty safe bet they aren’t really drug users.
Irrelevant conclusion
Misplaced burden of proof
Straw man
10.Identify any fallacies that appear in the following passage: You saw what the former governor of Illinois did: He declared a moratorium on executions in the state. It was a good thing, too, because it turns out that a large number of the inmates on death row had to be turned loose because DNA evidence proved them innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt. It’s about time we got serious about the fact that we’ve been convicting innocent people and sentencing them to death.
Misplaced burden of proof
Appeal to emotion
No fallacy