AP English Lang Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ad Hominem | When you personally attack a person presenting the argument, not the argument itself |
| Argument from Authority | When you use the opinions of an expert to support your argument |
| Appeal to Ignorance | It's true because you cannot prove it false or vice versa |
| Begging the question | Evidence that only seems legitimate from your own perspective |
| Hasty generalization | Draw a conclusion from insufficient evidence |
| Non sequitur | When there is no logical connection between two phrases |
| False dichotomy | When you oversimplify stuff into two opposing sides; black and white, no gray |
| Slippery slope | One mistake progresses and gets worse and worse, kind of. |
| Faulty Causality | Setting up a cause and effect relationship that does not actually exist. When you mix up correlation and causation |
| Straw Man Argument | An oversimplification of an opponents argument. When an argument is boiled down to some extreme example. |
| Sentimental Appeal | Induce pity from the reader |
| Red Herring | When you try and shift attention away from the main argument |
| Scare tactics | Scare the **** out of the reader |
| Bandwagon Appeals | Argue that everyone else is also doing it. |
| Dogmatism | When your beliefs are beyond question. "I'm right because I say so, ho" |
| Equivocation | Tell a lie by technically telling the truth while still intentionally being misleading. Intentionally ambiguous |
| Faulty Analogy | An illogical comparison of two things. |
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