Power - each colour represents a possible point
- Created by: tardy
- Created on: 03-02-22 11:26
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- Power - Influence
- Politics
- euphemisms
- collateral damage / enhanced interrogation
- These can be used to reduce the shocking effect of talking about death/torture
- **** Cheney, Afghanistan war
- collateral damage / enhanced interrogation
- George Orwell
- Criticised use of the passive voice
- Donald Trump: 'The election was rigged' (who by?)
- Omits the agent
- Makes it sound as if a conspiracy taking place
- Omits the agent
- Donald Trump: 'The election was rigged' (who by?)
- Criticised use of the passive voice
- euphemisms
- Advertising
- Euphemism
- adj.: 'fun-size' to distract from smaller product
- Use of comparative adjectives
- 'faster' 'better'
- Often does not specify faster than what
- 'faster' 'better'
- Euphemism
- Reclamation
- Way of shifting power by accepting an insult/ derogatory term
- Trump reclaimed noun 'deplorables' to describe his supporters
- The n-word - used by black Americans as a symbol of brotherhood/ belonging
- Way of shifting power by accepting an insult/ derogatory term
- Rhetorical techniques
- Speeches
- Antithesis (we go to the moon not because it is easy but because it is hard - Kennedy)
- Use of first person pronouns to suggest unity: we/us
- Speeches
- Politics
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