1. The Structure of Argument (4)

3. Identifying Hidden Assumptions

4. Ken is lazy, and lazy people don’t last long around here.

5. Identifying Hidden Assumptions

6. Since I’ve sworn to put up with my tired Honda until I can afford a BMW, I must resign myself to the old wreck for a while longer.

7. Identifying Hidden Assumptions

8. The senator is a Republican, so he is opposed to gun control.

9. Identifying Hidden Assumptions

11. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; such men are dangerous. —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

12. Identifying Hidden Assumptions We are born in debt, owing the world a death. —David J. Morris, “In Terror’s Shadow”

13. Identifying Hidden Assumptions

14. John is Lisa’s father, so clearly he is obligated to support her.

15. Identifying Hidden Assumptions The noise lay everywhere they ran, stratified sound collecting around them, and he walked away from it and into it at the same time. (4) —Don DeLillo, Falling Man

16. Identifying Hidden Assumptions He is thinking again, looking past the face in the mirror, which is not his, and waiting for the day to come, clear skies, light winds, when there is nothing left to think about. (178) —Don DeLillo, Falling Man

17. Identifying Hidden Assumptions She seemed to be blaming him for this, the fact of leaving, the fact of marrying, the thoughtless gesture of reuniting, and at the same time did not seem to be talking to him at all. (91) —Don DeLillo, Falling Man