Honors English Fallacies TKAM (test examples)

scare tactics

Atticus says Tom Robinson is not guilty, but someone in the room is

either-or-choices

you're either with blacks or against them

slippery slope

if you make one bad choice it will go down from there

sentimental appeals

mayella crying in the courtroom

bandwagon appeals

when people started going to the courthouse, everyone followed

appeals to false authority

when scout would say something about her dad, well he's a lawyer/her dad, so he must be right

dogmatism

miss maudie referring to hitler and the jews and then referring to blacks (being really racial)

ad hominem

you can't like atticus because he helps and likes blacks

hasty generalization

all black men steal/lie

faulty causality

guilt caused him to run

begging the question

miss caroline telling scout that atticus didn't know how to teach, she'd have to undo the damage of her reading

equivocation

mayella saying that her dad never touched a hair on her head

non sequitar

not used on final

the straw man

mayella trying to get an argument when atticus calls her ma'am