Assignment: Reviewing the Terms Evaluate Arguments and Fallacious Reasoning

Keywords
Explain each keyword in your own words.

1.argument:
2.claim:
3.fallacious reasoning:
4.relevant:
5.credible:

Identifying False Statements and Fallacious Reasoning

6.Create your own example of a false statement. Explain what makes it a false statement.

7.Identify one example of fallacious reasoning or create your own example of fallacious reasoning (either Bandwagon, hasty
generalization, or overgeneralization). Explain why identifying fallacious reasoning is important when evaluating an argument.

Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou and answer the queswhen i was three and bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists whinstructed - 'to whom it may concern' - that we were marguerite and bailey johnson negropassengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for the poor littleand plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad.deducing from the diction, which of the following are possible audiences for the memoir select all that appchildren of three and four years of age like ones in the memoirafrican-american adults from the south who can relate to angelou's storycaucasian adults interested in american historytrain conductors and passengers

Read the sentence from barrio boy by ernesto galarza. "now, ernesto, you are the man of the family. you will take care of your mother until we are together in sacramento. which statement best describes the figurative language used in these sentences? a simile is used to compare ernesto to a man. a simile is used to paint a picture of family life. a metaphor is used to compare a man and his family. a metaphor is used to paint a picture of responsibility.

In the sentence from barbara kingsolver’s “life without go go boots”, “writers are supposed to be eccentric,” the word eccentric is a euphemism for