Literary Devices
Comparisons using "like" or "as"
Comparing two unlike things
Metaphor
Giving examples to help define a word
What is exemplification?
Freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom of speech, freedom from fear
What are Roosevelt's four freedoms?
An editor can express a bias by choosing to use or not to use a specific news item.
What is Bias through selection or omission?
Appeal using emotion
What is pathos?
Appeal using logic.
What is logos?
Describing how the word acts or functions like
What is function?
True or false: The constitution is a list of grievances made against the king of England
What is true?
Some murders and robberies receive front-page attention, while others receive only a mention on page 20.
Bias through placement
Descriptive/vivid language
What is imagery?
Giving inanimate objects human qualities
What is personification?
Categorizing a word by type/kind
True or False: The list of grievances are used as evidence to support the American's claim of independence due to tyranny.
What is true?
A photo showing an unflattering view of a politician.
Bias by photos, captions, and camera angles
How an author conveys their attitude/feelings about what they are writing about?
What is tone?
An author's choice of words
What is diction?
Words that show what a word/definition is not
What is Negation?
Internal Conflict between the speaker's European and Native American Heritages
What is Ellis Isand?
A Trump supporter's answer is used to show how good of a president Trump is.
Bias by source control
A writer's main point/argument
What is a claim?
Sums up a writer's argument and asks the reader to do something
What is a call to action?
Strategies to help define a word
What is an extended definition?
Message-African should be converted to save their souls
What is On Being Brought from Africa to America?
Using numbers to make an accident seem worse than it is.
Bias through statistics