1 Name the rhetorical device that tries to sidetrack someone by bringing up a related but irrelevant topic.
A) appeal to popularity
B) bandwagon
C) subjectivist fallacy
D) common practice
E) smokescreen
2 Name the rhetorical device that is based on the view called relativism, that what is true for one is not true for another.
A) peer pressure
B) ridicule
C) appeal to pity
D) smokescreen
E) subjectivist fallacy
3 Name the rhetorical device that encourages the acceptance of a claim on the grounds that it is already accepted by some substantial number of others.
A) two wrongs make a right
B) appeal to popularity
C) wishful thinking
D) common practice
E) apple polishing
4 Name the rhetorical device that tries to justify an action on the grounds that it is normal behavior, accepted by all or most people.
A) peer pressure
B) apple polishing
C) appeal to anger
D) subjectivist fallacy
E) common practice
5 Name the rhetorical device that argues for a course of action on the grounds that taking this course will win the approval of others and especially of one's friends.
A) appeal to pity
B) bandwagon
C) two wrongs make a right
D) common practice
E) peer pressure
6 Name the rhetorical device that plays on our desire to be on the winning team.
A) subjectivist fallacy
B) wishful thinking
C) bandwagon
D) appeal to pity
E) common practice