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- HUBRIS:
Hubris is extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings
about his downfall. In literature, portrayal of hubristic characters serves to achieve a
moralistic end. Such characters are eventually punished thus giving a moral lesson to
the audience and the readers so that they are motivated to improve their characters by
removing the flaws that can cause a tragedy in their lives. Witnessing a tragic
hero suffering due to his hubristic actions, the audience or the readers may fear that the
same fate may befall them if they indulge in similar kinds of actions.
- ANTI-HERO
A character in a play or book that has the characteristics that are opposite of the conventional hero. Typically clumsy, unsolicited, and unskilled.
- BANDWAGON
Persuasive technique where the writer persuades by saying the majority is doing something.
- BANDWAGON FUNCTION
The purpose of this technique is to make the audience think and act in a way that majority follows. This tendency of following the beliefs and actions occurs when audience sees others are also conforming.
- PROPAGANDA
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
- PROPAGANDA-TRANSFER
This technique tries to persuade everyone to join in and do the same thing because it appeals to imagination.. “make america great again”
- PROPAGANDA GLITTERING
Make us accept things due to words like natural, democratic, scientific
- PROPAGANDA- TESTIMONIAL
This technique tries to persuade everyone to join in and do the same thing because of somebody people trust like a celebrity.
- PROPAGANDA- PLAIN FOLKS
Like bandwagon but the speaker represents himself as a “plain folk”
- PROPAGANDA-DISTORTION OF DATA
Does not present the whole story in order to convince an audience.
- PROPAGANDA-TESTIMONIAL
when a well liked or welll hated states that something is good or bad
