CJS 225 Wk 3 – Concept Check

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CJS 225 Wk 3 - Concept Check
CJS 225 Wk 3 – Concept Check
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CJS 225 Wk 3 – Concept Check

  1. Question 1

 

Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: What explains the mad dash to distribute free condoms in our public schools? The misguided and ridiculous notion that kids are going to have sex no matter what.

Loaded question

Weasler

Downplayer

  1. Question 2

 

Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: Moore and Parker are both getting a little thin on top.

 

Stereotype

Euphemism

Innuendo

  1. Question 3

 

Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: Miracle X-K3 battery additive extends the life of your battery by up to 5 years.

 

Innuendo

Downplayer

Weaseler

  1. Question 4

 

Identify the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: “[The CIA] instructed security forces in Uruguay, demonstrating torture techniques on beggars taken off the street. These activities, and many hundreds more like them, have been thoroughly documented by government investigations, by the press, and by the testimony of former CIA employees.” —Progressive Student Union

 

Rhetorical definition

Proof surrogate

Repetition

  1. Question 5

 

Recognize the rhetorical device that appears in the following passage: With her keen instinct for political survival on full alert, Governor Whitman suddenly saw the wisdom of the proposal that she had opposed for so many years.

 

Innuendo

Downplayer

Weaseler

  1. Question 6

 

Identify any fallacies that appear in the following passage: “People in Hegins, Pennsylvania, hold an annual pigeon shoot in order to control the pigeon population and to raise money for the town. This year, the pigeon shoot was disrupted by animal rights activists who tried to release the pigeons from their cages. I can’t help but think these animal rights activists are the same people who believe in controlling the human population through the use of abortion. Yet, they recoil at a similar means of controlling pigeons. What rank hypocrisy.” —Rush Limbaugh

 

Straw man

False dilemma

Ad hominem

  1. Question 7

 

Identify the false dilemma fallacy that appears in the following passage: You can’t say that he is uneducated. At what point does someone become educated?

 

Perfectionist fallacy

Line-drawing fallacy

False dilemma

  1. Question 8

 

Identify any fallacies that appear in the following passage: The administration’s proposal to declare hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land as ‘roadless areas’ is a huge mistake, and I’m against it. The whole point of the proposal—and it will succeed if the President gets his way—is to lock the American people out of those areas.

 

Straw man

Ad hominem

Appeal to emotion

  1. Question 9

 

Identify any fallacies that appear in the following passage: The police asked the neighbors on both sides of the Owens’s home whether they’d ever seen either of them do any drugs. They all agreed they hadn’t, so it’s a pretty safe bet they aren’t really drug users.

 

Irrelevant conclusion

Misplaced burden of proof

Straw man

  1. Question 10

 

Identify any fallacies that appear in the following passage: You saw what the former governor of Illinois did: He declared a moratorium on executions in the state. It was a good thing, too, because it turns out that a large number of the inmates on death row had to be turned loose because DNA evidence proved them innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt. It’s about time we got serious about the fact that we’ve been convicting innocent people and sentencing them to death.

 

Misplaced burden of proof

Appeal to emotion

No fallacy