Tone
What tone does this phrase use?
"With every challenge, the team grew stronger, believing that success was just around the corner."
Optimistic
Define audience vs. stakeholders.
The audience refers to the people who are reading the text and encouraged to act on the issue. The stakeholders are those who are impacted by the issue, or have the power to influence the issue.
List the persuasive techniques used in this quotation
"This means that while wealthy individuals may still enjoy 4–5% returns, the economy as a whole grows at only 1–2%. And here's the critical question: If the rich are getting richer at 5%, but the economy is only growing at 1%, where is the extra wealth coming from?"
Rhetorical question
Define "inflation".
Inflation is an increase in the level of prices of the goods and services that households buy.
What tone does this phrase use?
"Clearly, the best way to prepare students for the challenges of the modern world is to teach them fear and compliance with a paddle in hand. Who needs empathy or communication when you can just bring back corporal punishment, right?"
Sarcastic or Sardonic or Scornful
List five sequencing words other than "firstly", "secondly", "thirdly" and so on.
Teacher discretion
What are the connotations of the word "obliterating" in this excerpt?
"The housing crisis is obliterating stability. More than half of household income now goes to rent or mortgage repayments. Tenants fear eviction, endure poor conditions, and move constantly. Homeowners are trapped in unmanageable debt. Families live without heating or cooling. Young adults cannot afford to leave home."
To erase or destroy until nothing is left - i.e. stability
Define "stagnant wages".
Stagnant wages refers to a prolonged period during which wages remain flat or grow at a rate that is insufficient to keep up with inflation, resulting in declining purchasing power for workers.
What tone does this phrase use?
"Those warm summer evenings, with the sound of waves crashing and the scent of salt in the air, feel like they belong to another lifetime."
Nostalgia
How is the audience of Australians over the age of 65 positioned in this excerpt?
"The government’s response? Band-aids. A $300 energy rebate against a $3,000 bill. A $20 tax cut in the face of a $70 weekly grocery hike. Token gestures that insult the intelligence of struggling Australians."
What is the author appealing to in this excerpt?
"If we don’t address the underlying issues driving people like Ambrosius to seek shelter behind bars, we’re not just failing Australia’s most vulnerable, we’re ignoring a crisis that could come for any of us. The line between stability and homelessness is far thinner than we like to believe, and as housing becomes more unattainable, more people will find themselves with nowhere left to go."
Appeal to patriotism
Appeal to safety
Define "wealth inequality".
Wealth inequality is the unequal distribution of wealth in a society
What tone does this phrase use and what does it highlight?
"The government's abrupt funding freeze, deemed unlawful by the courts, has cast a long shadow over international aid, prompting urgent calls for accountability and reform"
Alarmed, highlighting the potential humanitarian consequences of the funding cut
List all of the argument types for PET HERPES.
Political, Economic, Technological, Historical, Ethical, Religious, Personal, Environmental, Social/Cultural
How does the use of second person in this excerpt position the audience of younger, working age Australians?
"You typically study until your early twenties, then retire around 60 or 65. That leaves about 40–45 years of working life. But you also have periods at the beginning and end of life where you're not earning—and during those times, your savings decrease. In real life, your wealth over time doesn’t follow a smooth, exponential rise."
Positions them to realise that the trajectory of their life does not align with increase of wealth over time. Younger, working age Australians may feel disillusioned with their ability to accumulate wealth despite working consistently for it.
Define "compound interest".
Compound interest is where you earn interest on both your initial deposit and on the interest that you've already earned, making the total invested at the end of each term greater than the last.
What tone does this phrase use and what does it highlight? What specific vocabulary choices hint to it?
"The former Meta official's exposé, flying off shelves with unprecedented speed, has thrust the tech giant into a storm of scrutiny, with insiders scrambling to address the revelations."
It conveys a sense of urgency and upheaval, highlighting the rapid success of the exposé and the resulting chaos within the company. Words like "storm," "scrambling," and "thrust" contribute to a feeling of disruption and turmoil, emphasising the high stakes and the pressure on those involved.
Consider the following audience. What can we assume about them in terms of: political alignment, things they value and things they are worried to lose, given the issue of the cost-of-living crisis?
Small business owners
May lean towards more conservative economic policy
Value wealth and growth of wealth, potentially family also
They will be concerned about profits, distribution of wages to their workers, taxation by the government.
What is the author implying for the audience of younger, working-age Australians under 40 in the following excerpt?
"The answer is stark: [wealth is] being extracted from you. This is the key point. We now live in what some call "late-stage capitalism." It’s no longer about building new wealth. It’s about owning the existing wealth. As the rich continue to grow their fortunes, they outbid ordinary people for housing, land, media companies, data, even culture. And the middle class, once the engine of economic stability, is being squeezed out."
That they will not be able to build wealth in the same way previous generations have, and will rather, lose it and become even poorer, whilst the wealthy become wealthier.
Define "Oligopoly".