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Persuasive Techniques

Authored by Barbara Gemignani Boyes

English

7th - 10th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 11+ times

Persuasive Techniques
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique is this?
To go over the top and make things sound better or worse than they are.

Emotive language
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Personal pronouns

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique is this?
When three adjectives or phrases are used together to make them stand out.

Rhetorical questions
Criticise others' ideas
Repetition
Groups of three

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique is this?
Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.

Rhetorical questions
Emotive language
Personal pronouns
Exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.L.7.5C

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique is this?
Repeating the consonant sounds at the beginning of words to make them stand out.

Alliteration
Exaggeration
Groups of three
Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique is this?
Using questions that don’t need an answer to get the audience to think.

Emotive language
Rhetorical questions
Criticise others' views
Alliteratio

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What is this an example of?

If I get one more homework task I am going to move to the moon!

Metaphor

Formal Tone

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1G

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