Persuasive Techniques

The use of exaggeration for effect.

• Stereotypes
• Hyperbole
• Emotive Language
• Simile

When you offer a prediction about how things could be in the future.

• Repetition
• Inclusive Language
• Rhetorical Question
• Hypothetical Scenario

When what you say tries to get a emotional response from a listener. 

• Emotive language
• Persuasive Phrases
• Possible Solutions
• List of three

Forceful alternatives to ordinary phrases

• Statistics
• Persuasive phrases
• Personal Experience
• Rhetorical Questions

When you put together reasons for an argument in quick succession

• Repetition
• Inclusive Language
• Hyperbole
• List of three

Brief, memorable ways of expressing an idea.

• Repetition
• Short sentences
• Possible solutions 
• Inclusive language

When you use numbers or data to support your views.

• Hyperbole
• Controversial statements
• Statistics
• Stereotypes

When you say key ideas more than once to suggest their importance. 

• Persuasive phrases
• Short sentences
• Possible solutions
• Repetition

When you say something which is likely to cause offence to some.

• Controversial statement
• Hyperbole
• Statistic
• Rhetorical Question

When you use information/stories from your own life to make an argument.

• Hypothetical situation
• Statistics
• Personal experience
• Opinions of others