ENGL U10 Flashcards
In 2001, President Bush made a speech to start a war with Afghanistan to eliminate ________.
terrorist
A(n) ______ voice is one that does not rise or fall in volume and is flat and boring.
monotone
A ______ is someone who leads an assembly, meeting, or discussion in an objective way and enforces the speaking rules.
moderator
The _______ and tone of media depends upon the position the author takes and the purpose of the media.
formality
Warner believes that the choosing and the ________ of news influences more than apparent editorial persuasion.
omission
Warner infers that there is ________ news, and this makes the public suspicious of all news.
fake
A(n) ______ is an argumentative speech with both sides presenting reasons for opposite stands on a particular subject.
debate
A limited preparation or ______ speech is one in which the speaker is given a short period of time to prepare.
impromptu
With media, a person’s _______ can be ruined by the court of public opinion.
reputation
An appeal to an audience that uses emotion is ________.
pathos
Appealing to one’s reputation and position is _______.
ethos
In “The American Newspaper,” Warner believes that the public expects news reporting to be ________.
unbias
______ are speech or sounds that a listener has to filter out, such as “um” and “uh.”
distractors
New media forms create ______ social groups in the same geographical areas.
diverse
Political candidates use persuasive tactics and _______ to persuade voters in all kinds of media, including debates.
rhetoric
Media that is encoded in machine-readable formats for digital electronic devices is called _________ media.
digital
The term for the pronunciation of words and how they are expressed is _________.
enunciation
A special concern about maintaining or influencing a condition, arrangement, or action, especially for selfish reasons is a ______.
vested interest
President Bush uses rhetorical devices to persuade the American public to support ________.
military action
Specific categories of standards by which something may be judged or decided is called ________.
criteria
A common geographical location, politics, education, religion, or personal interest of a social group influences a group’s ________.
cultural views
The main idea of Obama’s speech in 2014 is to end the war in Afghanistan and _______ the troops from there.
withdraw
Hardback and paperback books, newspapers, and journals are considered ________ media.
traditional
Warner says that when the public is ________ of persuasion, they are more easily persuaded.
unaware
Videos and images with humorous text that become popular in internet media are _______.
memes
When a soundtrack in a story with a plot becomes more _______, it foreshadows that a climactic event is about to occur.
dramatic
A blog that uses videos as its main form of media to present a person or business’s ideas or events is a _______.
vlog
Media with reader ________ allows for making comments, sending pictures, videos, or posting advertisements.
interaction
Audiences of geographical areas have personal, political, and religious beliefs that ______ consumers, and it is difficult to appeal to all of them.
divide
The spreading of misleading information for a particular political agenda is _______.
propaganda
________ can simultaneously reflect or promote different cultural views.
media
New _______ media includes e-mail and social forums.
advertising
