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Eng7PropagandaPoli
Eng7 Propaganda and Politics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| medium | artistic form of communication; examples include film |
| plot | what happens in a story; the sequence of events |
| act | An act is a part of a play defined by elements such as rising action |
| audience | the intended readers to whom the author is writing |
| climax | the point of highest action in a story; the turning point |
| conflict | a clash or struggle between people |
| connotation | a shade of meaning in a word or phrase that makes it different from other words or phrases with similar meanings |
| contrive | create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill |
| critical | involving careful analysis and judgment |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word or phrase |
| drama | another word for play |
| emotional appeal | an argument that tries to persuade by affecting people’s feelings |
| entreat | ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something |
| foreshadowing | a technique authors use to give clues about or to suggest what is going to happen |
| impart | make (information) known; communicate |
| inference | a guess or conclusion based on evidence and clues |
| loaded language | biased words used to stir up positive or negative feelings |
| logical fallacy | false logic caused by an error in reasoning |
| media | a form of communication |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that suggests or states a comparison between two unlike things |
| meter | the arrangement of words in poetry based on rhythm |
| mood | the emotions or feelings that are conveyed in a literary work |
| oration | a formal public speech |
| propaganda | the use of ideas |
| purpose | the reason for writing |
| resolution | the solution or working out of a literary conflict |
| rhetoric | the art of using language skillfully and persuasively |
| rhythm | a regular pattern of sound and beats within a poem |
| scene | A scene is a part of an act defined with the changing of characters. |
| script | the written text of a play |
| subplot | a story line or plot that is secondary to the main plot |
| synthesize | combine or blend to make something new |
| theme | the main message that an author wants to communicate to a reader |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward the topic or subject |
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