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Persuasive techniques

Authored by Lachlan Hennig

English

8th - 10th Grade

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Persuasive techniques
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Alliteration

When a word contains the letter L a lot

Repeating the same letter many times. E.g 'Billy bought Ben back before Bingo".

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Anectode

A story about antelopes

A short story that is very biased

A short account or story of an entertaining or interesting incident

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Cliches

A word that makes the reader confused

An expression that is used a lot such as "fit as a fiddle".

A long story that goes no where

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Colourful words/descriptive language

Something very uninteresting

Something that is heightened or made more interesting by the use of words used to describe it.

A word that describes a colour

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Emotional appeals

Makes the reader feel nothing

The reader is left not knowing what has happened and feels confused

The reader becomes emotional because of the way something is written. They could become happy, excited or sad based on the way something is described.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Emotive language

Language that only talks about crying and sad things to make the reader sad.

The use of strong words to play on the readers emotions and feelings.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Evidence

Writing something that you made up to make the reader believe something happened.

Information, statistics, facts or statements used to support your arguments.

Using graphs and numbers.

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