Tools for Analysis
More about Documentaries
Metaphors - Analysis
Template for analysing metaphors found below. A click on the button, and you are good to go.
Reasoning? Arguments?
Check out the links in our Truthers section where the focus is on logical fallacies.
Beware of framing. Always think about how the story is presented.
Media Bias
Come to grips with the bias of English-speaking media.
Play around with the chart at Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart.
And read some criticism about why it is not always as nuanced as one could want (article from Poynter Institute).
Media Bias Chart from ad fontes Media
Look it Up!
You’re very clever, but we all need to look stuff up once in a while. Here are some links for free dictionaries that might help you on your eternal quest for mastery of the English language!
Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries.
sproget.dk - sometimes, you have to look at your native language to compare and understand other languages.
Look Up More Things!
Etymology at etymonline.com - find the story/origin of a word.
Rhetorical devices at Silvae rhetoricae/The Forest of Rhetoric where you will find lots and lots of figures and theory.
More literary terms can be found here at Sparknotes.