Persuasive Techniques

What is imagery

• Create a ‘mental image’ using text. A noun group.

• Repeating words that start with the same letter

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common

• One thing compared to another using the words like or as

What is a simile?

• One thing compared to another using the words like or as

• One thing compared to another using the words like or as

What is personification?

• One thing compared to another using the words like or as

• Repeating words that start with the same letter

What is alliteration?

• Repeating words that start with the same letter

• Overstating something as better or worse than it actually is (hyperbole is taking this to the extreme)

What is exaggeration?

• Overstating something as better or worse than it actually is (hyperbole is taking this to the extreme)

• Questions that have an obvious answer

What is a rhetorical question?

• Questions that have an obvious answer

• A series of three words, phrases or sentences.

What is a tricolon?

• A series of three words, phrases or sentences.

• The use of an imperative verb (donate, join, buy)

What are commands?

• The use of an imperative verb (donate, join, buy)

• Repeating the same words, phrases or ideas several times in your writing (eg. Three sentences in a row or at the start and end)

What is repetition?

• Repeating the same words, phrases or ideas several times in your writing (eg. Three sentences in a row or at the start and end)

• Words that are loaded with emotional association