Rhetorical fallacies, or fallacies of argument, don't allow for the open, two-way exchange of ideas upon which meaningful conversations depend. Instead, they distract the reader with various appeals instead of using sound reasoning.
Near the end of the school year, half of the students failed the course.
Answer would be C I'm pretty sure.
An Adjectival Phrase - a group of words headed by an adjective that modifies a noun.
An Adjective - a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
A Noun - a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things