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Audience fallacy is when you are the writer and you assume that the audience knows something. An example of this is when one assumes that all women in the audience clean and cook in their household. Authorial fallacy is an incorrect assumption. It is when one is making assumptions about a certain topic; this is most easily identified when an author writes something without any support of their argument and therefore can be identified as being false. An example of an authorial fallacy is when the author makes a statement saying: “our society believes…”