Persuasive Techniques

When authors provide evidence that contradicts itself, they are using this type of persuasive technique:

• Misleading statement

• Exaggerated statement

• Parallel statement

• Contradictory statement

When you make a similar argument to someone else, you are making a:

• Contradictory statement

• Exaggerated argument

• Parallel argument

• Misleading argument

Use of certain words for emphasis, sometimes repeated or in all caps, italicized, bolded, etc.

• Exaggeration

• Word choice

• Anecdotes

• Causality

Anecdotes are:

• Short interesting stories used to create a personal connection.

• Stretching of the truth.

• Bringing cause and effect into an argument.

• Comparing and contrasting your topic with a similar one.

When authors saying something is the best or most amazing, they are using:

• Exaggeration

• Word choice

• Contradictory statement

• Misleading statement

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These types of persuasive appeals often include facts and statistics.

• Emotional

• Moral

• Logical

• Exaggerated

These types of persuasive appeals often rely on a reader's sense of good and bad, and right and wrong.

• Parallel

• Moral

• Logical

• Emotional

When ads try to make people feel bad about animals being harmed, they are primarily relying on these types of appeals:

• Emotional

• Moral

• Logical

• Contradictory