Purpose and technique

Entertainment   

To amuse and to delight   

To arouse emotions and sympathies   

To appeal to fantasy and imagination   

Instigation of Public Thought and Action   

To raise questions   

To criticize the actions of others; to reprimand   

To weaken the support of opponents   

To persuade to act, vote, donate, etc.   

To inform of issues of concern   

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The Support of a Community of Common Beliefs   

To state one's beliefs; to take a stand   

To repeat the accepted beliefs of a group; to encourage and reinforce these beliefs   

o share recent developments and events that are of mutual concern   

To gain tolerance for one's beliefs in the wider community   

To persuade others of the correctness of certain views; to gain approval   

To recruit active support; to proselytize