Any type of fiction that has multiple levels of meaning.
What is an allegory?
100
When a writer asks a question for effect or to emphasize a point when no real answer is expected.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
deserted; forsaken
What is abandoned?
100
To fall apart or deteriorate slowly.
What is decline?
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
The Tortoise and the Hare.
What is an example of a fable?
200
When a writer intentionally repeats the same words or phrases to emphasize an idea and make it clearer.
What is repetition?
200
The cancellation or postponement of punishment.
What is a reprieve?
200
to pull together into a whole; unify
What is integrate?
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
A short simple story with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral lesson.
What is a fable?
300
A technique used when an author or a speaker chooses language with the intention of persuading the reader towards a specific belief.
What is a rhetorical device?
300
Made extremely thin and weak.
What is emaciated?
300
according to law; lawful
What is legitimate?
300
Out of a mass of complex facts, the propagandist selects only those which support his arguments and assertions.
What is selection?
400
Objects, events, or people are presented symbolically - underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance.
What is an allegory?
400
A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it.
What is an analogy?
400
Known widely and usually unfavorably.
What is notorious?
400
person engaged in warfare; fighting
What is militancy?
400
The propagandist often tries to find an enemy, real or imagined, to attack. This unites everybody against the enemy and encourages them to stop thinking for themselves.
What is pinpointing the enemy?
500
A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness.
What is satire?
500
The use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or of similar importance.
What is parallelism?
500
A vessel used for melting materials at high temperatures
What is a crucible?
500
in a way impossible to untangle
What is inextricably?
500
The propagandist often peppers his speeches with questions which he intends to answer himself.