Persuasive Techniques

Which persuasive technique is this?
Using words like ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ to make your audience think you are talking only to them.

• Repetition
• Alliteration
• Exaggeration
• Personal Pronouns/Direct Address

Choose the correct persuasive technique.
To go over the top and make things sound better or worse than they are.

• Emotive language
• Alliteration
• Exaggeration
• Personal pronouns

What is the technique?
When three adjectives or phrases are used together to make them stand out.

• Rhetorical questions
• Opinion
• Repetition
• Rule of Three

Which persuasive technique is this?
Repeating words or phrases so that they stick in your audience’s mind.

• Rule of three
• Facts
• Repetition
• Emotive language

Choose the correct persuasive technique.
Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.

• Rhetorical questions
• Emotive language
• Personal pronouns/Direct Address
• Exaggeration

Which persuasive technique is this?
A question to get the reader thinking.

• Emotive language
• Rhetorical questions
• Rule of Three
• Opinion

What is this an example of?
The meal was cold, tasteless and undercooked.

• Exaggeration
• Repetition
• Emotive Language
• Rule of Three

What is this an example of?97% of employers believe communication skills are important to the success of their business.

• Exaggeration
• Statistics
• Emotive Language
• Repetition

What is this an example of?
We can make a big difference, if you agree help us. 

• Emotive Language
• Rule of Three
• Facts
• Direct Address

What is this an example of?
...I am unhappy about the noise your students make to and from school.  The noise needs to be dealt with as I can no longer live in such a noisy street. The noise is a real issue. 

• Exaggeration
• Repetition
• Emotive Language
• Facts