PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Didactic(adj): teaching, instructive. When instructing students, teachers are didactic. Ms. Smith told her class the story of how America was discovered.
Hyperbole(n): exaggeration, overstatement. Bob was hyperbole when he said he'd kill for food. Rick would kill for a bowl of soup.
Inference(n): draw a reasonable conclusion from information. After watching John Q. We can infer John would do anything for his son. While watching Cinderella it is clear the step mother is evil.
Paradox(n): statement that contradicts itself. A paradox is how we all have the same right but if you have more money you have more rights. We all have the same education but all succeed differently.
Plagiarism(n): using ones work without acknowledgment. Troy was accused of plagiarism for not citing his sources. In Big Fat Liar Marty Wolff took Jason Shepard's story without permission.
Semantics(n): the study of meaning. Sometimes the words are different but the semantics are the same. Nobody has figured out the meaning of life yet.
Transition(n); movement from position to another. At the beginning of paragraphs we had to have transitions. While talking about horses, Cindy changed the subject to talk about rabbits.
Annotated bibliography(n); list of resources. All books should have an annotated Bibliography to cite the right sources. The book had a list of all the citations in it.
Audience(n); group of spectators at event. The audience cheered after the play. Without people watching a movie, playing the movie is pointless.
Abstract(n);piece of writing which summaries the ideas. They were presenting abstracts from the journal. For most essays we read we have to summarize it.
