Ap English Language And Composition

Front 1

There is no smallest positive rational number, because if there were, it could be divided by two to get a smaller one.

Back 1

False Reductio ad absurdum

Front 2

We must either stop using cars or destroy the earth.

Back 2

False Dilemma

Front 3

Is Fred looses one hair, then he isn't bald. If Fred loses two hairs, then he still isn't bald. Therefore, he can lose as many as he wants and not be bald.

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False Contuinuum

Front 4

If we ban Hummers, because they are bad fro the environment, eventually the government will ban all cars,so we should not ban hummers.

Back 4

Slippery Slope

Front 5

All men are humans.
Mary is human.
Therefore, Mary is a man

Back 5

Non-sequitur

Front 6

"Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that."

Back 6

Straw Man Fallacy

Front 7

Wilma: You cheated on your income tax. Don't you realize that's wrong?
Walter: Hey, wait a minute. You cheated on your income tax last year. Or have you forgotten about that?

Back 7

Tu Quoque

Front 8

The Volkswagen Beetle is a fascist car because it was originally designed by Hitler's army.

Back 8

Genetic Fallacy

Front 9

Sam is riding her bike in her home town in Maine, minding her own business. A station wagon comes up behind her and the driver starts beeping his horn and then tries to force her off the road. As he goes by, the driver yells "get on the sidewalk where you belong!" Sam sees that the car has Ohio plates and concludes that all Ohio drivers are jerks

Back 9

Hasty Generalization

Front 10

Bill thinks that welfare is needed in some cases. His friends in the Young Republicans taunt him every time he makes his views known. He accepts their views in order to avoid rejection.

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Bandwagon

Front 11

John is wrong because he is a jerk.

Back 11

Ad hominem

Front 12

Because we don't know everything about the brain, we might be able to transmit signals over distance.

Back 12

Ad ingnorantium

Front 13

Mr. Higely believes X; Mr. Higley speaks from authority; therefore, X is true.

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Argument from Authority

Front 14

I don't believe a nuclear war exists, if I did then I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

Back 14

Argument from final consequence.

Front 15

"If such actions were not illegal, then they would not be prohibited by the law.

Back 15

Begging the Question

Front 16

"I can't help but think that you are the cause of this problem; we never had any problem with the furnace until you moved into the apartment."

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Post-hoc ergo propter hoc

Front 17

The probability of a complex organism evolving by chance is the same as a tornado's ripping through a junkyard and creating a 747 by chance.

Back 17

False analogy

Front 18

If Fred loses one hair, he won't be considered bald. If Fred loses two hairs, he still won't be considered bald. Therefore, it doesn't matter how many hairs Fred loses, he won't be considered bald.

Back 18

False continuum

Front 19

We must either stop using cars or destroy the earth.

Back 19

False Dilemma

Front 20

Bring me my bow! Bring me my arrow! Bring me...

Back 20

anaphora

Front 21

We shall ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

Back 21

Antimetabole

Front 22

We shall support any friend, oppose any foe.

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Antithesis

Front 23

For our picnic we will have sandwiches, yogurt, apples, bananas.

Back 23

Asyndeton

Front 24

Aruba is a vacationer’s paradise with its pristine beaches, sun-drenched days, and glorious breathtaking sunsets.

Back 24

Cumulative Sentence

Front 25

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

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Horative Sentence

Front 26

We are the heirs of the first revolution...and now the torch has been pased to the next generation.

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Juxtaposition

Front 27

Ranch Hands

Back 27

Metonym

Front 28

Deafening silence

Back 28

Oxymoron

Front 29

I will add him to my list of people who aren't on lists.

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Paradox

Front 30

In opening minds, instilling values, and creating opportunities, education has no equal.

Back 30

Periodic Sentence

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sardonic

Back 31

cynical; sneering; mocking

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Vituperative

Back 32

condemning; verbal abuse

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Facetious

Back 33

not meant to be taken seriously

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Reigned

Back 34

submissive, or acquiescent

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Nostalgic

Back 35

wistful for the past

Front 36

Pedantic

Back 36

overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

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Didactic

Back 37

inclined to teach or lecture others too much

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Laudatory

Back 38

containing or expressing praise.

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Idyllic

Back 39

suitable for or suggestive of an idyll

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Reverent

Back 40

feeling, exhibiting, or characterized buy reverence; deeply respectful

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Lugubrious

Back 41

mournful, dismal, gloomy. Especially in an affected exaggerated, or unrelieved manner.

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Elegiac

Back 42

expressing sorrow or lamentation

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Macabre

Back 43

having death as a subject; think morbid

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Reflective

Back 44

marked by reflection, thoughtful, dilerbate.

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Maudlin

Back 45

weakly and effusively sentimental

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jingoistic

Back 46

pertaining to extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy

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Detached

Back 47

exhibiting an aloof objectivity usually free from prejudice of self-interest.