8th English Logical Fallacies/Rhetorical Devices

Ethos

credibility

pathos

emotion

logos

logic

appeal to fear

scare tactics

personal attack/ad hominem

attacking the speaker rather than the argument

false dilemma/black and white thinking

two options, one good one bad

slippery slope

series of unlikely events

non sequitur

no logical relationship between two points

argument from authority

accept it because a respected person says it

tu quoque(you too)

pointing out the speaker is a hypocrite

straw man

attacks a distorted version of the argument

moving the goalposts

setting new standards

anecdotal fallacy

personal experience

middle ground

compromise between two points

Repetition

repeated word or phrase

Hyperbole

exaggeration

Allusion

Indirect reference to something famous

Anaphora

Repeating words at the start of sentences

Tricolon

Using three similar things in a row

Question

Asking for information

Hypophora

Asking a question, then answering it

Anadiplosis

Repeating the last word at the start of the next sentence

Litotes

Expressing something positive by denying the opposite

Epistrophe

Repeating words at the end of sentences