AP Lang logical fallicies

Begging the question

The author assumes that the audience agrees with an unstated premise with which the audience may not agree

Argument from analog

Explains something unfamilar by comparing it to something more familiar

Ad hominem (personal attack)

Tries to divert focus from the argument by attacking the motives or character of the opponent

Hasty or sweeping generalization

When a conclusion is reached from too little evidence

False dilemma

Suggesting that only two alternatives exist even though there may be others

Equivocation

The meaning of a key term changes at some point in the argument

Red herring

Focus is changed to divert the audeince from the actual issue

You also

An opponents argument has no value because the opponent does not follow his own argument (hypocrisy)

Appeal to doubtful authority

References to people who are not experts in a topic

Misleading statistics

Using stats that are distorted or misrepresented

Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Assuming that becatse two events occur close together in time, they have correlation

Non Sequitor

When a statement does not logically follow from a previous statement