Unit 3: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. reasoning
    thinking that is organized and logical
  2. evidence
    knowledge on which to base belief
  3. bias
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  4. editorial
    an article giving opinions or perspectives
  5. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
  6. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  7. caricature
    a representation of a person exaggerated for comic effect
  8. concession
    a point that is yielded
  9. refutation
    the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
  10. slant
    present with a bias
  11. satire
    a literary genre that uses humor to ridicule human failings and vices
  12. persona
    an image of oneself that one presents to the world
  13. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  14. objective
    undistorted by emotion or personal bias
  15. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
Created on Thu Jan 21 10:58:05 EST 2021 (updated Tue Jan 26 09:18:07 EST 2021)

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