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a work that describes the events in a person's life (not the author's life)
written in 3rd person and may cover the story of his/her entire life story |
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an author writes the story of his/her own life.
It is written in 1st person. |
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| a type of autobiography that focuses on a specific memory, instead of the author's entire life. |
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| a short writing about a particular topic that tells what the author thinks or knows about the topic |
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| a work of nonfiction delivered out loud to a specific audience |
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a newspaper or magazine article that gives the opinion (like on television)
that resembles such an article |
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| the author's attitude about what he or she is writing about |
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| the best people to read a piece of writing/hear a speech (because it was written for them, focused on topics that are important to them). |
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the reason something is written
(there are 4)
to inform, to describe, to persuade, to entertain |
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| the way an author uses language. It is made up of diction, which is a word choice (simple or complex), sentence structure, and whether or not the author uses figurative language |
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| any argument or reasoning to convince people to change the way they think or act. **This works best with support (you give them facts and reasons to change what they think, instead of telling them they are wrong) |
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| the spreading of ideas, information, or rumors for the purpose of helping or hurting an institution, a cause, or a person. |
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| having to do with beauty, having a pleasing appearance |
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a flawed argument that is not logical, but seems to be sound.
(used in advertising alot) |
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a statement that someone makes without evidence
(example: "This product will change your life!") |
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| a type of persuasion using facts, examples, statistics, and other evidence from books and sources people can trust. |
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| a type of persuasion that calls upon an individual or other expert source to give credibility to an argument |
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| a type of persuasion when a speaker or writer builds an argument using expressive language instead of presenting evidence |
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| a fallacy based on quotations or endorsements from famous people that attempts to connect a famous or respectable person with a product or item |
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(attacking the person)
a fallacy in which somone cannot win an argument based on the issues, so they just attack the character of the person making the argument |
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| a fallacy in which a customer is attracted by the advertisement of a low-priced item but is encouraged to buy a higher-priced one. |
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| a fallacy in which one is attracted to popular party, faction, or cause that attracts growing support: following the crowd rather than using evidence to justify a conclusion |
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(jumping to conclusions)
making a broad statement based on a small sample |
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| a fallacy based on appeal to the common person or "average Joe" |
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| a fallacy that lists all of the good things about a product or issue and leaves out the negative things |
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| a fallacy that uses fear to persuade people to vote for a person or buy a product |
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| a fallacy in which emotionally appealing words that are closely linked to things that are important to us are used to influence people without reasoning or evidence |
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