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a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective or point of view. |
Bias |
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Give an example of bias for |
A sports fan who always roots for their favorite team, regardless of their performance. |
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Give an example of bias against |
A hiring manager who automatically rejects candidates who have a certain ethnicity. |
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A propaganda technique that encourages people to follow the crowd or conform to the popular opinion. |
bandwagon |
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Give an example of name-calling. |
A politician who refers to their opponent as a "crook" or a "liar". |
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A propaganda technique that emphasizes a message by repeating it over and over again. |
Repitition |
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social issue |
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A problem or concern that relates to values or ethics, such as abortion or euthanasia. |
moral issue |
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A problem or concern that relates to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, such as inflation or unemployment. |
economic issue |
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A word or phrase that helps to connect ideas within a text or speech, such as "however" or "in addition". |
cohesive devices |
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A word that connects a dependent clause to an independent clause, such as "because" or "although". |
subordinating conjunction |
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an example correlative conjunction |
either or, neither or both and |
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using grammatically similar constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance |
parallel structure |
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give an example of using parallelism |
I like swimming, biking, and riding |
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the sequence of an event that also makes up the storyline of the movie |
plot |
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What are the key elements of a movie? |
A movie typically includes elements such as a plot, characters, setting, theme, conflict, and resolution. |
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What are some examples of subordinating conjunctions? |
Examples of subordinating conjunctions include: after, although, as, because, before, if, once, since, though, unless, until, when, where, while. |
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What are some examples of cohesive devices? . |
Examples of cohesive devices include: pronouns (he, she, it, they), conjunctions (and, but, because), adverbs (however, therefore), transitional phrases (on the other hand, in addition), and repetition of key words |
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are technique that uses language that evoke strong feelings, such as fear, happiness, anger, or sadness, to persuade others to support or believe something |
emotional words |
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kill (a person or animal) in a violent way. |
slew |
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to live in a place or to stay in a while |
dwell |
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not guilty |
innocent |
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idled |
not working |
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These words are used to dupe us into accepting and approving of things without examining the evidence carefully. Examples: "Natural", "Democratic", "Organic", "Scientific", "Ecological", "Sustainable |
glittering generalities |
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is the use of technical language or unfamiliar words, whether contained in the dictionary or freshly coined, for the purpose of impressing people |
technical jargon |
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is a propaganda technique that involves portraying the speaker or product as being a part of or representing the common people, with the goal of appealing to the audience's sense of identity and shared values |
plain folks |
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This technique uses endorsements or recommendations from respected or influential people, with the goal of convincing the audience to adopt a particular point of view or product. |
testimonial |
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This technique uses negative words or labels to describe opponents, with the goal of making the audience dislike or distrust them |
name calling |
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used to promote or publicize a particular political cause of pov usually one-sided information intended to either support or threaten a view |
propaganda |
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rules of parallelism
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words phrases (use gerund words) |
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ing ing ing |
words/phrases |
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ly ly ly |
do not mix form |
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that that that |
clauses |
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to to to |
infinitive words |
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: : : : : |
list after a colon |
