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false information given out regularly, normally by governments and '...designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable' (Orwell). Techniques of propaganda include false assertion (making something a fact when it is not a fact); fallacy (an argument based on the false assertion); rationalisation (the use of false logic to excuse or justify something bad); obfuscation (the blurring of unpleasant realities or the truth with many long and complicated words and phrases); euphemism (the use of a neutral or pleasant word to cloak a bad reality, e.g. calling it collateral damage when bombers kill civilians; and emotional arousal (the use of emotive words to stir up an audience).
a play designed to be performed in a theatre.
(also called reported speech) what someone said or reported in the voice of the third person,...
a literary genre consisting of an arrangement of meaningful and musical words. Most poems take...
the combination of word choice (diction), punctuation, sentence construction, paragraphing, type...
the main part of the piece of writing. This is where the argument is made, with proper paragraph...