Year 8 - Persuasive Writing Flashcard

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Narrative perspective of a persuasive brochure?

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Second person

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What is a personal recount?

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A story or anecdote about the writer's or someone relevant's experiences.

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Definition of emotive language:

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Impactful, dramatic vocabulary to convey or manipulate emotions.

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Comparative: A class of adjective used to compare nouns, ending in 'er' or using 'more/less'.

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A class of adjective that is used to compare one noun to another noun. They always end in the letters 'er' or place the words 'more' or 'less' before an adjective.

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What is an imperative?

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A sentence that issues a command or instruction, starting with the verb for the action the writer wants the reader to follow.

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Personification: technique describing non-human objects with human traits.

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Describes a non-human object as having a human characteristic.

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Metaphor: A technique where one thing is literally another.

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A technique where we say that one thing is literally something else.

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Simile: A technique using 'like' or 'as' for comparison.

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A technique that uses the words 'like' or 'as' to make a comparison.

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Rhetorical question: A question posed to make the reader think about an idea or issue, not requiring an answer.

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A question that a writer poses to make the reader think about an idea or issue they want them to think about. The question doesn’t require an answer.

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Anaphora is a type of repetition where the same word or phrase is repeated at the START of nearby sentences.

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Anaphora