Consider the Following Argument: "Billy-Ray Hoggerty's Book Stoned in Muskogee

Multiple Choice

Consider the following argument: "Billy-Ray Hoggerty's book Stoned in Muskogee should be awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize for literature. Billy-Ray, as you know, recently lost both his parents, and his favorite coon dog got run over by a truck." Which of the following fallacies has been committed in this argument?

A) the fallacy of attacking the motive
B) the fallacy of personal attack
C) None of the answers are correct
D) the fallacy of appeal to pity