Recommended Practice: Language and Relevance Handout #1 - Answer Key

1) Vague Comparison  

2) Look Who’s Talking 

3) Appeal to Novelty  

4) Weasel Word 

5) Appeal to Novelty 

6) Overgeneral 

7)  Attacking the Motive 

8) None of the above

9) Poisoning the Well

10) None 

11) None 

12) Bandwagon Argument  

13) Appeal to Novelty

14) Appeal to Tradition

15) Euphemism

16) Straw Man Misrepresentation

17) Straw Man Misrepresentation

18) Hyperbole and Appeal to Novelty

19) Weasel Word

20) Bandwagon Argument

21) Weasel Word and Euphemism

22) Weasel Word

23) Vague Comparison  

24) Bandwagon Argument

25) Appeal to Novelty

26) Two Wrong Make a Right

27) Straw Man Misrepresentation

28) Poisoning the Well

29)  Attacking the Motive

30)  Two Wrongs Make a Right

31) Personal Attack

32) Appeal to Novelty and Bandwagon Argument  

33) Hyperbole and Vague Comparison

34) Hyperbole and Personal Attack

35) Hyperbole and Bandwagon

36) Hyperbole and Poisoning the Well

37) Hyperbole and Guilt by Association

38) Bandwagon Argument and Appeal to Tradition

39) Appeal to Novelty

40) Euphemism