Unit 4: Terms and Language

Honors English IV unit 4 vocab

Agenda

A secret plan or motivation that causes someone to act in a certain way

Archival footage

Film footage taken from another, previously recorded, source

Annotated bibliography

A list of sources used in research along with comments or summaries about each source

Conventions

an element of a genre that a novel, poem, short story, or other literary work uses that helps readers understand the genre it's in.

Documentary

A genre of filmmaking that provides a visual record of actual events photographs, video footage, and interviews

Media

Collectively refers to the organizations that communicate information to the public

Media channel

A method an organization uses to communicate, such as radio, television, website, newspaper or magazine

Primary footage

Film footage shot by the filmmaker for the text at hand

Eyewitness account

A description given by someone who was present at an event

Confirmation bias

The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories

Logical fallacy

A statement that is false because it is based on an error in reasoning

Rhetorical/emotional slanters

A rhetorical device used to present a subject in a biased way

Faulty analogy

Assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily alike in some other respect

Straw man

The misrepresentation of an opponent's position or a competitor's product to tout one's own argument or product as superior

Slippery slope

Involves an acceptance of a succession of events without direct evidence that this course of events will happen

Post hoc reasoning

When one event happens after another, assuming the first event necessarily caused the second