Unit 5: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. controversy
    a dispute where there is strong disagreement
  2. documentary
    a film presenting the facts about a person or event
  3. objective
    undistorted by emotion or personal bias
  4. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  5. imperative
    requiring attention or action
  6. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
  7. refutation
    the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
  8. stakeholder
    one who has an interest in something, especially a business
  9. advocate
    speak, plead, or argue in favor of
  10. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
  11. narration
    a telling of a story in writing, drama, or cinema
  12. logos
    a rhetorical appeal to the audience's reason or rationality
  13. pathos
    a style that has the power to evoke feelings
  14. ethos
    a rhetorical appeal that relies on the character or credibility of the speaker
  15. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
Created on Thu Jan 14 16:15:13 EST 2021 (updated Tue Jan 19 11:38:49 EST 2021)

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