Buddha is that guy from China and looks adorable
Answer:
Passage A commits a fallacy but does not commit a fallacy of equivocation or amphiboly.
Passage B commits a fallacy and specifically commits a fallacy of equivocation.
Passage C commits a fallacy but does not commit a fallacy of equivocation or amphiboly.
Passage D does not commit a fallacy
Passage E commits a fallacy and specifically commits a fallacy of amphiboly.
Explanation:
A fallacy is an argument that isn't sound because it has a faulty logic. There are many different types of fallacies. The fallacies dealt in our example here: fallacy of equivocation and fallacy of amphiboly both deal with fallacies stemming from ambiguity of words or sentences such that they can mean so many things at the same time. While fallacy of equivocation deals with fallacies resulting from ambiguity caused by use of a word that could mean so many things, fallacy of amphiboly deals with fallacies from ambiguity of phrases and sentences.
Answer:
a. It criticizes the way some readers try to understand a poem
Explanation:
Billy Collins makes a great reference to how some readers try to understand a poem, by saying that they begin beating it with a hose, trying to explain that they take everything too rough and do not consider all the factors, nor try with the care and importance that analyzing a poem should have, he writes in his poem the ways to understand a poem, speaks about
"I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore."
Speaking about a way of getting to know the poem and investigate, about feeling it and letting it take you places, but all what readers want to do is easily and quickly understand it.
First one is finish
Second one is listen
Third one is Disappear
Fourth one is fly