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literary devices examples- english final

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"Even though it's only the first day, I can tell this is going to be a boring course."
hasty generalization
The public should not support Dr. Mason's plan for improving county health services. He is a former alcoholic whose wife recently divorced him
ad hominem
Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit in the head in order to make them work, so must employees.
false analogy
Cigarettes should be banned. Children who start smoking cigarettes will then move onto weed, he'll get curious and then try coke, then LSD, then heroin. Cigarettes are the gateway to death
slippery slope
"My roommate said her philosophy class was hard, and the one I'm in is hard, too. All philosophy classes must be hard!"
hasty generalization
"Andrea Dworkin has written several books arguing that pornography harms women. But Dworkin is just ugly and bitter, so why should we listen to her?"
ad hominem
I drank tap water and now I am sick, so the water made me sick.
faulty causality
You are either conservative or liberal
either/or
"Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty, lazy hippies."
ad hominem
what?! you want schools to teach sex education that goes beyond the abstinence only approach? I really don't think it's appropriate to tell children in kindergarten how to use a condom!
straw man
I disagree with the councilman's statement on the need for more parks in our city. After all, how can we trust him? He got into trouble recently for not making his child-support payments.
ad hominem
Because our daughter benefitted from home schooling, every child should be educated in this way
hasty generalization
During the last ten years, every time a Republican is elected president, recession has followed. The recessions were caused by the Republican presidents.
faulty causality
We cannot unlock our child from the closet because if we do, she will want to roam the house. If we let her roam the house, she will want to roam the neighborhood. If she roams the neighborhood, she will get picked up by a stranger in a van, who will sell her in a sex slavery ring in some other country. Therefore, we should keep her locked up in the closet.
slippery slope
After a named storm entered the Gulf of Mexico, Craig Biggio's batting average would always rise significantly. These tropical storms and hurricanes caused Biggio to play better baseball.
faulty causality
When America criticized the Israeli bombing of Beirut in 1981 in which 300 civilians were killed, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said "I don't want to hear anything from the Americans about hitting civilian targets. I know what America did in Vietnam."
red herring
The overcrowded conditions in some parts of our city have forced people to like rats in a cage. Like rats, they will eventually turn on each other, fighting and killing until a balance is restored.
false analogy
with a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by lack of pirates.
faulty causality
I cheated on my organic chemistry test, and no one caught me. I'm too smart for any professor to catch.
hasty generalization
Texas should be kicked out of the US. Seventy percent of Americans think so!
Bandwagon
You keep saying that you want to relax gun control laws, but why is it so important that everyone have automatic weapons, even small children and the mentally disabled?
straw man
how long will America tolerate these opponents of gun control who want only criminals to have guns?
straw man
We have to support our Second amendment rights to bear arms. As soon as guns are made illegal, suddenly you'll find the government taking more and more of our rights away until we are slaves to the state. If we lose our second amendment rights, the others will follow one by one
slippery slope
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