| # | Term | Definition | From Set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | red herring | off-topic diversion- logical fallicy | persuasion |
| 2 | red herring | Something that draws attention away from the central issue. | My English Vocabulary |
| 3 | red herring | false clue; focus of the arguement by diverting to another subject | Logical Fallicies |
| 4 | Red herring | This means exactly what you think it means: introducing irrelevant facts or arguments to distract from the question at hand. For example, "The opposition claims that welfare dependency leads to higher crime rates -- but how are poor people supposed to keep a roof over their heads without our help?" It is perfectly valid to ask this question as part of the broader debate, but to pose it as a response to the argument about welfare leading to crime is fallacious. (There is also an element of ad misericordiam in this example.) | Logical Fallacies |
| 5 | Red Herring | The introduction of a topic not related to the subject at hand. Example: I know your car isn't working right. But, if you had gone to the store one day earlier, you'd not be having problems. Example: I know I forgot to deposit the check into the bank yesterday. But, nothing I do pleases you. | Logical Fallacies (English) |
| 6 | Red Herring | When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue | AP English Vocabulary |
| 7 | red herring | something that is used to divert attention from the basic issue | Mystery |
| 8 | Red Herring | a false lead that throws the investigator off track | Unit 1 - Mystery Terms |
| 9 | Red herring | A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | Communications |
| 10 | Red herring | When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue | AP English Terms |
| 11 | red herring | dodging the real issue by drawing attention to irrelevant issues | vocab-10-15 |
| 12 | red herring | introducing an irrelevant issue to distract readers. | Fallacies |
| 13 | Red Herring | the focus of an argument is changed to divert the audience from the actual issue. | Logical Fallacies |
| 14 | red herring | when the focus of an argument is changed to divert the audience from the actual issue | English: Argumentation |
| 15 | red herring | something that draws attention away | Vocab for Achievement Lesson 5 |
| 16 | red herring | sth that leads people away from the main point in a discussion | balonik |
| 17 | red herring | somthing that draws attention | english |
| 18 | red herring | false clues - something that is used to divert attention from the real crime | English 8: vocab |
| 19 | red herring | something that diverts attention from a central issue | Literary Terms and Devices |
| 20 | Red Herring | Something that draws attention away from the main issue | English Test |
| 21 | red herring | Something that distracts from the real issue | Mystery Vocab. |
| 22 | Red Herring | Something that draws attention away from the main issue. | Vocabulary for Achievement Section 3-6 |
| 23 | Red herring | focus of the arguement is diverted from the actual issue | English |
| 24 | red herring | an attempt to distract the reader with details not relevant to the arguement | Literary Terms |
| 25 | red herring | something that is used to distract someone from the truth | Mystery vocabulary |
| 26 | red herring | (n.) Something that draws attention away from the main issue | 9th Grade Vocab. for Achievement Lesson 5 |
| 27 | red herring | any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue | card terms |
| 28 | red herring | a false clue; something that draws attention away from the subject that is really guilty | Mystery Vocab |
| 29 | red herring | a twist, a thing that you thought wouldn't happen | westing game |
| 30 | red herring | false clue | mystery voca.. |
| 31 | red herring | a false or misleading issue designed to disguise the real issue | ap lang terms |
| 32 | red herring | the use of unrelated infomation that distracts from the real issue | propaganda |
| 33 | red herring | n. misleading clue, smoked herring, preliminary business prospectus | 100 smart words |
| 34 | Red Herring | something to distract a person from the real issue | CAC Logic and Reasoning |
| 35 | red herring | something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; misleading clue | English Vocabulary:Mystery Unit |
| 36 | red herring | something that draws the attention away from the main issue | Vocab lesson 5 |
| 37 | red herring | going off on a tangent, raising a side issue that distracts the audience from what's really at stake | Fallacies |
| 38 | red herring | something introduced in order to divert or mislead attention | Westing Game Vocab 3 |
| 39 | red herring | an attempt to distract the reader with details not relevant to the argument | The 20 New Literary Terms |
| 40 | red herring | false issue used to mislead | AP ENGLISH (Rhetoric terms) / set 4 ( INDUCTIVE REASONING ) |
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