QUOTATIONS OUT OF CONTEXT

Section: Language

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Definition of Quotations Out of Context:
Quotation out of context is a propaganda technique when the effect of quoting a given statement without its context is to distort the original meaning in context. The context of a given statement is not merely the words that precede and that follow but every accompanying circumstance, whether it be time and place or gesture and facial expression.

Someone quotes the Bible as saying that '... money is the root of all evil' but leaves out the preceding words, 'the love of.'

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