A speaker says, "We must change to the metric system or we will fall behind the rest of the world in science and industry." This speaker is guilty of using which kind of fallacy in reasoning?

"The mountain stood guard, brooding over the city below" is an example of ________

A) ?alliteration. B) ?simile. C) ?repetition. D) ?personification. E) ?hyperbole.

A referent that cannot be detected by bodily senses, such as love, is considered ______.

a. concrete b. connotative c. denotative d. abstract