English

• Card stacking - only shows positive and doesn't show negative
• Name calling - Calling someone something negative
• Plain folks - Group of ordinary people
• Glittering generalities - Words or ideas that evoke positive emotions
• soft soap - Uses flattery or insincere compliments
• Bandwagon - Makes people stressed by showing them that the general is doing the same
• Testimonial - uses famous people
• Transfer - to imitate someone so that you feel accepted
• Simplification - Basic ideas
• Loaded words - uses words that cannot be supported by concrete evidence
• Biased writing - Subjective unfair presentation of the issue, focuses on one side
• unbiased writing - objective fair presentation of the issue focuses on both sides
• issue - important problem/topic
• social issue - it involves people in the society
• moral issue - a situation or action that does not confirm to the shared norms
• economic issue - a situation that reflects the scarcity of resources
• exposition - very beginning of a story
• rising action - part when tension starts to build
• climax - part where the characters of a story faces and solve the conflict
• falling action - when tension lessens and starts bringing the action to close
• resolution - conclusion or ending of a story
• non fiction - based on facts
• fiction - based on writer's imagination
• literature - refers to a body of written works
• characters - the people, animals, beings or personified objects driving your story
• setting - both the physical location and point in time
• POV - describes the lens through which the story is being told
• conflict - big problem of the story
• plot - events or actions that drive your story
• theme - the idea or central message of he story
• coordinating conjunctions - words that connect two or more words or group of words in a sentence
• For - shows reason and purpose
• And - expresses addition
• nor - connects non contrasting negative ideas
• but - shows contrast/difference
• or - expresses choice/positive
• yet - shows contrast or exception
• so - expresses choice, shows result
• parallel structure - using the same construction for a sentence, elements that are the same in function