Midterm Terms

Question 1

What is a comma splice?

Answer 1

Two or more sentences separated by only a comma.

Question 2

What is a fused sentence?

Answer 2

Two or more sentences joined together with no punctuation where the thoughts intersect.

Question 3

What is a fragment?

Answer 3

A part of a sentence or an incomplete sentence

Question 4

What are the seven coordinating conjunctions?

Answer 4

For, and, but, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS)

Question 5

Name three transitional words.

Answer 5

Furthermore, however, therefore, first, second, third

Question 6

What is a fallacy?

Answer 6

A flaw in logic.

Question 7

Name three fallacies

Answer 7

Ad hominem, false analogy, stereotyping, either/or, post hoc, card stacking, hasty generalization

Question 8

How many types of compare/contrast essays are there?

Answer 8

2

Question 9

What are they?

Answer 9

Point by point and Block

Question 10

What is your professor’s last name?

Answer 10

Dieffenbach

Question 11

What is a narrative?

Answer 11

A story told from the writer’s perspective or a personal story.

Question 12

Assuming that because two events happened, the first one caused the second one.

Answer 12

Post Hoc

Question 13

Discrediting or attacking the person making the argument rather than the argument itself. Against the man.

Answer 13

Ad Hominem

Question 14

When a conclusion does not follow logically from its given premise.

Answer 14

Non-Sequitur

Question 15

Brings the argument down to one of two choices making it overly simple.

Answer 15

Either/Or

Question 16

Propaganda that tells all the positives about something without telling the negatives.

Answer 16

Card Stacking

Question 17

Inferences based on an analogy that is too different from the argument.

Answer 17

Faulty Analogy

Question 18

Jumping to a conclusion before understanding all the facts relevant to it; not having evidence.

Answer 18

Hasty Generalization

Question 19

Does not prove the argument rather than restates it or distract from the point.

Answer 19

Arguing off the Point

Question 20

Blonds have more fun

Answer 20

Stereotyping

Question 21

Discrediting an idea, claim, or person by associating it with an undesirable person or group.

Answer 21

Guilt by Association

Question 22

I failed my midterm because of a black cat crossed my path

Answer 22

Post Hoc

Question 23

College students have such an easy life. They only go to class twelve to fifteen hours a week.

Answer 23

Card Stacking

Question 24

Each part of an argument has to rely on the truthfulness of the other; going in circles. If this is true because that is true, that is true because this is true.

Answer 24

Circular Argument

Question 25

Jenny is always talking in class. You’re her best friend, so I know you are talking too.

Answer 25

Guilt by Association

Question 26

You either love or hate me

Answer 26

Either/Or

Question 27

Bill’s been out every night for two weeks. Who is she?

Answer 27

Non-Sequitur

Question 28

Teaching high school students sex education is like taking an alcoholic to a bar.

Answer 28

Faulty Analogy

Question 29

I would never take Mrs. Dieffenbach’s Comp 2 class. She drives a minivan and doesn’t like ducks.

Answer 29

Ad Hominem

Question 30

The cheese tastes funny. I am never eating cheese again.

Answer 30

Hasty Generalization

Question 31

Eating cheese has never been determined bad for our health. We should all tell the school administrators so that they stop serving cheese at lunch.

Answer 31

Begging the Question

Question 32

There is no parking at FSCJ because I can never find a parking space.

Answer 32

Circular Argument

Question 33

I would never take Mrs. Dieffenbach’s Comp 2 class. She drives a minivan and doesn’t like ducks.

Answer 33

Ad Hominem

Question 34

Mom, did you see that there is a sale at Dillard’s?

Answer 34

Arguing off the point

Question 35

Stay-at-home mothers have such an easy job. All they do is sit around and watch soap operas

Answer 35

Card Stacking

Question 36

Mr. McGoo is running for Congress, but I would never vote for him because he’s bald

Answer 36

Ad Hominem

Question 37

Billy really loves to eat. Someday he’s going to have a weight problem.

Answer 37

Non-Sequitur

Question 38

Corporal punishment is a necessary evil. Children respond best to humiliation, and it makes them understand the consequences

Answer 38

Card Stacking

Question 39

It's hard to imagine what Alice went through in the virtual simulation.

Answer 39

It is; It's

Question 40

It's very hard to understand why the Victory Project was so popular and its purpose.

Answer 40

Its

Question 41

Lose or loose

Answer 41

Lose

Question 42

I would rather sit naked on a hot grill than wear something off the rack.

Answer 42

Than

Question 43

I sat naked on a hot grill then I got burned.

Answer 43

Then

Question 44

Did you find the pencils where I told you?

Answer 44

Where; location

Question 45

The pencils were where you told me

Answer 45

Were

Question 46

We're going to the mall, but Alice is staying home.

Answer 46

We're; We are

Question 47

The girls want to go to the mall, if they have any money, they will buy some new shoes that they saw last week.

Answer 47

Fused Sentence

Question 48

Because students were tired and grumpy and hungry

Answer 48

Sentence Fragment

Question 49

Todd told Shirley and Shirley told the teacher.

Answer 49

Fused Sentence

Question 50

Finals are hard for they require so much concentration.

Answer 50

Fused Sentence

Question 51

When I was sick with the flu, my husband took good care of me expect he didn’t let me sleep as much as I wanted to, he was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.

Answer 51

Comma Splice

Question 52

I have, finally finished the last bit of chocolate-covered popcorn now I don’t have to worry about my children finding my stash.

Answer 52

Fused Sentence

Question 53

Alice went to the store for candy, she also went for milk.

Answer 53

Comma Splice

Question 54

I enjoy amusement parks, I didn’t have fun at Great America.

Answer 54

Comma Splice

Question 55

Jack is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, he also heads the Warrant Committee.

Answer 55

Comma Splice

Question 56

Your ice cream will melt, you should eat it quickly.

Answer 56

Comma Splice

Question 57

I studied hard this semester I earned good grades

Answer 57

Fused Sentence

Question 58

Because Alice started to discover the truth.

Answer 58

Sentence Fragment

Question 59

This is the last question of the final so I won’t make it too hard and I’ll tell you that it is a fused sentence

Answer 59

Fused Sentence

Question 60

Jack didn't let Alice choose to enter the Victory Project Alice felt betrayed by her husband.

Answer 60

Fused Sentence

Question 61

Felt betrayed by her husband.

Answer 61

Sentence Fragment

Question 62

Alice loved her job as a nurse, Jack hated that Alice was a nurse and worked all the time

Answer 62

Comma Splice

Question 63

Hated that Alice was a nurse and worked all the time.

Answer 63

Sentence Fragment

Question 64

Robbed Alice from choosing if she wanted to be in the Victory Project or at her job

Answer 64

Sentence Fragment

Question 65

Stabbed Jack and bloodied her white satin dress

Answer 65

Sentence Fragment

Question 66

Conclusion is assumed to be true in the argument's premises.

Answer 66

Begging the Question