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STUVIA 2024/2025COMS 145-Slanters
Slanter - ✔✔a linguistic device designed to give a positive or negative slant regarding
a claim.
Euphemism - ✔✔a neutral or positive term used instead of one that carries a more
negative association.
Dysphemism - ✔✔A neutral or negative term used instead of one that carries a more
positive association.
Persuasive Definition - ✔✔a definition that reflects the speaker's way of looking at a
controversial subject.
Persuasive Explanation - ✔✔An explanation intended to influence attitudes or affect
behavior
Persuasive Comparision - ✔✔used to sway one's attitude.
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Stereotype - ✔✔when one, either rightly or wrongly, attributes a quality to a group,
and then attributes that quality to an individual or individuals within that group.
Innuendo - ✔✔When one suggests something without coming out and saying it.
Loaded Question - ✔✔when there is an unwarranted assumption inherent in a
question.
Weasler - ✔✔a word or phrase that qualifies a claim in such a way as to mislead or
facilitate deception.
Downplayer - ✔✔a word or short phrase that downplays the significance or one idea
in relation to another.
(but, still, nevertheless, although, etc.)
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