Blog 7

Please choose one of the following topics (all have to do with "Love is a Fallacy" by Max Shulman) and write a 1-2 page blog on it. You may work with a partner if you wish. Please include both of your names if you choose to do so).

1. Please analyze the artistic features of "Love is a fallacy" by Max Shulman from four aspects (lexical, syntactic, rhetorical, and discourse analysis), and examine how these techniques help reveal the stylistic beauty of the essay as well as the personalities of the three characters.

2. Please summarize the theme and sub-theme of this story and then offer your opinion on the author's purpose, audience, and methodology.

3. Please compare "Love is a Fallacy" to "Plato's Cave" and reveal how Shulman uses humor to explore similar thematic content as focused on in the latter.

4. Please discuss how "Love is a Fallacy" utilizes logical fallacies to make its points.