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Rhetorical Devices
Propaganda
100
Having no mercy or compassion; cruel.
What is merciless?
100
A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs of bushes.
What is a hedge?
100
The gathering of a ripened crop.
What is harvest?
100
A technique used when an author chooses particular language in order to persuade an audience.
What is rhetorical device?
100
The systematic spreading of information, especially in a biased or misleading way, in order to promote a political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
200
Deserted; forsaken
What is abandoned?
200
A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.
What is a quarry?
200
The act of forcing out someone or something.
What is expulsion?
200
A comparison with two objects that are different.
What is analogy?
200
The propagandist rarely argues. He just makes bold statements that he asserts to be true - and goes on and on making them.
What is assertion?
300
Known widely and usually unfavorably.
What is notorious?
300
Someone who betrays his country by committing treason.
What is a traitor?
300
Dig up for reburial of medical investigation.
What is disinter?
300
The use of similar grammatical constructions to express related ideas.
What is parallelism?
300
Repeating a statement again and again. It will eventually be accepted by your listeners.
What is repetition?
400
To indulge oneself immoderately.
What is wallow?
400
Material consisting of seed coverings and pieces of stem.
What is chaff?
400
Having a secret or hidden meaning.
What is cryptic?
400
When a writer repeats a phrase to emphasize an idea.
What is repetition?
400
Doing this is always a major tool of the propagandist. If you do this often enough and loudly enough people will begin to believe it.
What is lying?
500
A vessel used for melting materials at a high temperature.
What is a crucible?
500
A dissenting clique.
What is a faction?
500
To get by special effort.
What is procure?
500
Place seeds in or on the ground for future growth.
What is sow?
500
Out of a mass of complex facts, the propagandist selects only those which support his arguments and assertions.
What is selection?
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