Context, Purpose, and Argument About Language (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards
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Essay publication: month, year, magazine
Essay publication: month, year, magazine
April 1946, Horizon
Orwell's wartime role
Orwell's wartime role
BBC propagandist
Stalin's purges euphemism
Stalin's purges euphemism
Liquidations
Nazi genocide euphemism
Nazi genocide euphemism
Final solution
Allied bombing campaigns euphemism
Allied bombing campaigns euphemism
Strategic bombings
Four linguistic swindles
Four linguistic swindles
Dying metaphors, verbal limbs, pretentious & meaningless words
Dying metaphors
Dying metaphors
Metaphors that lost imagery through overuse
Pretentious diction
Pretentious diction
Fancy words when simpler ones work better
Language-thought relationship per Orwell
Language-thought relationship per Orwell
Corrupt each other in bidirectional cycle
Orwell's rule on metaphors
Orwell's rule on metaphors
Never use one you're used to seeing in print