Logical Fallacies - Review
Quiz by Kenisha Taylor
Grade 6
ELAR (2009)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
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- Q1What is a claim?a writer's message about lifea writer's position, or opinion or an issue or problema writer's evidence on an issue or problem30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q2What is reasoning?evidence that help support or prove the claiman pinion opposite of the original claiman emotional opiniona stated problem30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q3What is a counterclaim?the supporting evidence provided to prove a claimthe support used to dispute or overcome the original claimthe original opinion present in an argumentthe viewpoint against the original claim30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q4What is a rebuttal?the supporting evidence provided to prove a claimthe reasoning used to disprove the original claimthe original opinion presented in an argumentthe viewpoint against the original claim30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q5Evidence that is NOT closely related to the claim, or does not support the claims is....opiniontruthfaulty reasoningsound reasoning30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q6What is personal bias?reasoning that leads to a conclusion opposite of the claimreasoning based on opinion or personal experience rather than informationdrawing a conclusion based on stereotypesreasoning that restates the claim30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q7What is circular reasoning?reasoning that leads to conclusion opposite of the claimdrawing a conclusion based on stereotypesreasoning that restates the claimreasoning based on opinion or personal experience rather than information30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q8What is oversimplification?reasoning that says a result is based on only one cause, and doesn't consider other possible causesreasoning based don opinion or personal experience rather than informationreasoning that leads to a conclusion opposite of the claimdrawing a conclusion based on stereotypes30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q9What is over generalization?reasoning based on opinion or personal experience rather than informationdrawing a conclusion based on stereotypesreasoning that says a result is based on only one cause, and doesn't consider other possible causesreasoning that leads to a conclusion opposite of the claim30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q10What is a contradiction?reasoning that leads to a conclusion opposite of the claimreasoning based on opinion or personal experience rather than informationdrawing a conclusion based on stereotypesreasoning that says a result is based on only one cause , and does not consider other possible causes30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q11School should start at 7 am because everyone does better early in the morning.overgeneralizationpersonal biascontradictionoversimplification30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q12Wearing Jordans will make basketball players perform better, because when I wore my Jordans for the first time, I scored 35 points in the game.overgeneralizationpersonal biascontradictioncircular reasoning30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q13People can't live on Mars because it takes too long to get there from Earth.oversimplificationoversimplificationpersonal biascircular reasoning30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q14A Night Divided is a great book because it is such a good story to read.personal biasovergeneralizationoversimplificationcircular reasoning30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q15The best time to do homework is right before bedtime because kids are very tired by then.personal biasoversimplificationcontradictioncircular reasoning30s6.11.B: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text