During a radio ad, listeners are repeatedly asked, "what would life be without fletchers ice cream? " at the end of the ad, the same question is cleverly interrupted immediately after the word "without." at that point, many listeners mentally respond with the words "fletchers ice cream." their response best illustrates the principle of:

Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "we know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself. there is no evidence that it is audrey. in fact, she's too clean, if you know what i mean. somebody should fire audrey; she's got to be the spy." by making this argument chris is actually engaging in (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) an appeal to ignorance fallacy (d) circular reasoning (e) an appeal to the mob fallacy