EMPHASIS MARKERS FOR PERSUASIVE PURPOSES

EMPHASIS MARKERS

FOR PERSUASIVE PURPOSES

Prepared by: Diane Marie A. Santos, Teacher II, Kalayaan National High School

Quarter 3, Week 2, Day 4

Use emphasis markers for persuasive purposes.

(EN8F-IIIb-5)

Objective:

WARM-UP

QUESTIONS​

​Let's see if you're ready!

Multiple Choice

1. What type of text is used to convinced someone about something?

• Descriptive

• Persuasive

• Informative

• Expository

Open Ended

2. What words are used in this statement to show emphasis?

Chippers are the crispiest, crunchiest, and most delicious brand of chips you will ever taste. Buy a bag today!

Why do we use emphasis markers on persuasive speech

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Common

Emphasis

Markers​

Getting your listeners' attention

Emotive Words

words designed to evoke emotions. It creates strong feelings such as anger, joy, concern, guilt, empathy. It also involves the reader in the text.

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Multiple Choice

What is the emotive word used in this sentence:

This pandemic will be much dreadful unless we do our part to stop the spread of the virus.

• dreadful

• pandemic

• spread

• virus

Personal Pronouns

Use of personal pronouns

is a short word we use as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person.

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Multiple Choice

What is the personal pronoun used in this sentence:

We certainly know that in togetherness, we can move mountains.

• know

• move

• can

• we

Exaggeration

making something seem much better or much worse that it really is.

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She cried so long that she made a lake

Repetition

saying the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis

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" Never give in -

never, never, never, never"  

​- Winston Churchill

Imperatives

using commands or instructions

Grade 8

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All people please

do stay still.

Let's try!

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Open Ended

What is the emphasis marker in the sentence:

I am certain that in those days, the quality of food was poor that eating was probably hazardous.

Open Ended

Surely, she would understand.

Open Ended

Of course there were people who would love to live in the farm.

Open Ended

Is it really worth that you spend all your savings?

How well can you identify emphasis markers?​

Read the given sentences. Identify the type of emphasis marker used whether is emotive words, personal pronoun, exaggeration, repetition or imperatives.

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Multiple Choice

1. Please do wear a mask. It's one of the ways to prevent COVID-19!

• Emotive Words

• Personal Pronoun

• Exaggeration

• Imperative

• Repetition

Multiple Choice

2. We can do our part. We can heal as one.

• Emotive Word

• Personal Pronoun

• Exaggeration

• Imperative

• Repetition

Multiple Choice

3. “Hatred was spreading everywhere; blood was being spilled everywhere, wars were breaking out everywhere.” - Shusaku

Endo, Deep River

• Emotive Word

• Personal Pronoun

• Exaggeration

• Imperative

• Repetition

Multiple Choice

4. The fishermen in Quezon caught a fish as big as my house.

• Emotive Word

• Personal Pronoun

• Exaggeration

• Imperative

• Repetition

Multiple Choice

5. The video shows a brutal slaughter of whales.

• Emotive Words

• Personal Pronoun

• Exaggeration

• Imperative

• Repetition

Breakaway Session

Create a slogan (traditional or digital) about Face-to-Face Classes. Take note of the assigned emphasis marker for each group:

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​ Group 1 - Emotive Words

Group 2 - Exaggeration

​ Group 3 - Repetition

Group 4 - Imperatives​

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Slogan sample:

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Slogan sample:

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Slogan sample:

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Work on your slogan for 10 minutes​

Submit the slogan (image format), indicating the group number, in our Facebook messenger once you're done and go back to our main Google meet link.

Group Assignments

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Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Room Assignments

Group 1 - https://meet.google.com/wyd-kbet-tfj?authuser=0

Group 2 - https://meet.google.com/xxf-uaef-arr?authuser=0

Group 3 - https://meet.google.com/sne-ikkg-keu?authuser=0

Group 4- https://meet.google.com/fjc-razb-woe?hs=122&authuser=0

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