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- Characterisation Free
Characterisation is the way in which a writer creates her characters in a narrative so as to attract or repel the sympathy of the reader/audience....
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Literature and Characterisation Meet the IB Learner Profile
Writers of fictional worlds are creative in many ways. A key element of literary construction is characterisation. For those who have read more than a little, who doesn't remember characters like Pip,...
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Characterisation
Characterisation is the way in which a writer creates her characters in a narrative so as to attract or repel the sympathy of the reader/audience....
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- Caesura
From Latin for 'cutting', caesura is a pause within a line of verse, established by the natural organisation of language into phrases, clauses, and sentences, which do not conform to the metrical pattern....
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- Bandwagon effect Free
The bandwagon effect is a propaganda technique that suggests one should do something because everyone else is doing it. It is an argumentation fallacy, because something does not have to be true if everyone...
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- Cacophony Free
Cacophony is discordant, rugged or hard-sounded effects in prose or verse, usually produced by clusters of consonants arranged so as to make pronunciation difficult. Cacophony is frequent in comical verse...
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- Bias Free
Bias refers to language that supports an ideological position, either explicitly or implicitly. When we see subjectivity in pieces of writing that should be objective, we can claim that they are biased....
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- Audience Free
This is a general term which refers to the reader or listener of a text....
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- Appeal to fear Free
In advertisements, speeches or even newpaper articles we see that writers and speakers appeal to their audience's sense of fear. If you can make people scared, then they will believe or buy anything....
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- Appeal to authority Free
Appeal to authority is an argumentation technique, in which one refers to a source that claims to have authority. It is an argumentation fallacy because it assumes that authorities or institutions are...