Persuasive Techniques

Simile is....

• Uses like or as to describe one object to another.

• States a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison.

• A question asked to make a point rather than to be answered.

• A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The definition of Name-Calling is....

• Linking positive, general, and commonly accepted words with a person, group, or cause.

• Negative names are used for the "enemy" or opposition, so that the audience has an emotional response to them.

• Substituting words or phrases with softer, "nicer" ones to create a more positive response.

• Using well-known personalities to endorse a person, group, or cause.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

A Pun is....

• the association or bringing together of two words or phrases having opposite meanings.

• It is the figure of speech in which the real meaning is just the opposite of that which is literally conveyed by the language used.

• When we use the same word in two or more senses in order to make people laugh.

• states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Fear is....

• Substituting words or phrases with softer, "nicer" ones to create a more positive response

• Warning an audience that something horrible will happen to them if they don't take certain actions.

• Claiming that an audience should do something because everyone else is doing it. This plays on people's fear of being left out.

• An exaggerated statement to make a point.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Assonance is....

• A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.

• a literary device used to reference another object outside of the work of literature.

• The repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words. To qualify as assonance, the words must be close enough for the repetition of the sound to be noticeable.

• Substituting words or phrases with softer, ‘nicer’ ones to create a more positive response or to mislead intentionally

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Generalities is...

• Claiming that an audience should do something because everyone is doing it.

• Linking positive, general, and commonly accepter words with a person, group, or cause.

• Negative names are used for the "enemy" or opposition, so that the audience has an emotional response.

• An exaggeration, or exaggerated statement to make a point.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Bandwagon is...

• Claiming that an audience should do something because everyone else is doing it.

• Trying to convince an audience that someone is "one of them".

• Substituting words or phrases with softer "nicer" ones.

• Using well-known personalities to endorse a person, group, or cause.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Synecdoche is...

• is a figure of speech using a word that is a part to represent a whole, a whole to represent a part or a material to represent an object.

• is the association or bringing together of two words or phrases having opposite meanings.

• Describing words, often used to make the reader feel a particular wayabout an issue.

• an appeal to logic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Pathos is...

• An appeal to logic

• An appeal to moral character

• An appeal to emotion.

• Describing words, often use to make the reader feel a particular was about an issue.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

Idiom is...

• is the association or bringing together of two words or phrases having opposite meanings.

• peculiar to itself either grammatically (as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements.

• It is the figure of speech in which the real meaning is just the opposite of that which is literally conveyed by the language used .the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.

• When we use the same word in two or more senses in order to make the people laugh.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A