Propaganda Techniques
This propaganda technique attempts to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea?
What is a testimonial?
The written text of a play, which includes the dialogue between characters, stage directions and often other expository information
What is a script?
Support provided to mark a statement as reasonable.
What is defense of a claim?
The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic.
What is bias?
Traits that mark a work as imaginative or narrative discourse (e.g. plot, theme, symbol)
What are elements of fiction?
This propaganda technique tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it is popular or because “everyone” is doing it.
What is "bandwagon?"
An extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others or as if alone.
What is a monologue?
Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.
What is explicit.
Traits that mark a work as reportorial, analytical, informative, or argumentative (e.g. facts, data, charts, graphics, headings)
What are elements of nonfiction
The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution.
What is plot?
This propaganda technique makes an oversimplified statement about a group based on limited information?
What is stereotyping?
A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage.
What is a soliloquy?
A conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad statement about a topic or person.
What is an generalization?
The overall structure or shape of a work that frequently follows an established design, such as a narrative, short story), or patterns of poetic meter, lines, and rhymes (stanza, verse)
What is literary form?
A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
What is exposition?
An attempt to distract the reader by using words distract from the actual topic?
What is a "red herring?"
A playwright’s written instructions provided in the text of a play about the setting or how the actors are to move and behave in a play
What are stage directions?
Though unexpressed in the actual text, meaning that may be understood by the reader; implied.
What is "implicit?"
A trend or pattern of shared beliefs or practices that mark an approach to literature (e.g. Realism, Naturalism, Romanticism)
What is a literary movement?
An organizational device used in literature to present action that occurred before current time of the story.
What is a flashback?
This propaganda technique states a conclusion as part of the proof of the argument?
What is a circular argument?
Conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work; in its most restricted sense, it refers to the speech of characters in a drama
What is dialogue?
A literary approach that ridicules or examines humans' behavior or society?
What is satire?
Text that includes literary elements and devices usually associated with fiction to report on actual persons, places, or events. Examples include nature and travel text, biography, memoir and the essay
What is literary nonfiction?
A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
What is symbolism?