The thousands of baby seals killed in the Exxon Valdez oil spill have shown us that oil is not a reliable energy source.
SENTIMENTALISM: use emotion to distract the audience from the facts.
If you don't support the party's tax plan, you and your family will be reduced to poverty.
SCARE TACTICS: try to frighten people into agreeing with the arguer by threatening them or predicting unrealistically dire consequences.
Paris Hilton carries a small dog in her purse, so you should buy a hairless Chihuahua and put it in your Louis Vuitton.
BANDWAGON: encourage an audience to agree with the writer because everyone else is doing so.
If you get a B in high school, you won't get into the college of your choice, and therefore will never have a meaningful career.
SLIPPERY SLOPE: arguments suggest that one thing will lead to another, oftentimes with disastrous results.
The patent office can either approve my generator design immediately or say goodbye forever to affordable energy.
EITHER/OR: reduce complicated issues to only two possible courses of action.
Ginger: Your dog just ran into our house and ransacked our kitchen!
Mary: He would never do that, look at how adorable he is with those puppy eyes!
APPEAL TO PITY: when an arguer tries to get people to accept a conclusion by making them feel sorry for someone.
If you have an F in math you are just lazy because math is so easy.
DOGMATISM: Asserting that a particular position is the only one conceivable or suggesting that simply raising an issue is wrong.
Well, it's not like you graduated from a good school, so I can see why you wouldn't know how to properly grade a writing assignment.
AD HOMINEM: when someone rejects a belief or argument based on its source. This is an attack on a person's character.