political tract
Persuasive governance essay
A political tract is a written work arguing for a particular political position or cause.
Tracts are typically short, forceful, and designed to persuade rather than explore nuance.
The form flourished with the printing press—pamphlets distributed to sway public opinion.
Today tract often carries a faintly dismissive tone, suggesting propaganda or heavy-handedness: The novel reads more like a political tract than literature.
- pamphletUnbound topical booklet
- common senseNative practical judgment
- manifestoPublished statement of principles
- polemicAggressive argumentative discourse
- broadsideFierce written assault
call to arms · screed · leaflet · propaganda · party line · rhetoric · rabble rousing · dissent · civil disobedience · revolution · agitation · treatise · doctrine · ideology · sermon · rant · diatribe · proclamation
political tractencyclopedia entry
Informational piece in reference book
hard news · news bulletin · balanced coverage · news summary
political tractromance novel
Fiction about romantic love
cookbook · nature poetry · travel guide · technical manual · fairy tale
political tractlight entertainment
Undemanding amusement programming
escapist fiction · beach read · romance novel · comic strip · humor column
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