PERSUASIVE LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES

1.Using questions that don’t need an answer, but get your audience thinking.

• Repetition

• Personal Pronouns

• Rhetorical Questions

• Emotive Language

2.Repeating words or phrases so they stick in your audience’s mind long after heard.

• Criticize the Opposing View

• Repetition

• Emotive Language

3.Using words that make people feel upset, sad, angry, guilty, or sympathetic.

• Three rule

• Emotive Language

• Alliteration

4.Using words like “we,” “you,” “us,” or “our” to make the audience think you are only talking to them

• Emotive language

• Rhetorical Questions

• Personal Pronouns

5.Point out, and destroy the opposing argument by invalidating them/their claims

• Emotive language

• Alliteration

• Criticize the opposition

6.Which persuasive technique best fits the following: I believe we will succeed. I believe we will prosper. I believe one day we will be together. I believe.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Repetition

7.Which persuasive technique best fits the following: We came together to fight this, and we will not fail until one of us decides it is over; then we fail as a whole.

• Personal pronouns

• Emotive language

• Anecdote

8.Which persuasive technique best fits the following: When I was a child, my father abandoned us. This put our family in trouble. This also put me in the path to do better.

• Exaggeration

• Alliteration

• Emotive language

9.Which persuasive technique best fits the following: Have you without a doubt that it will be done?

• Anecdote

• Rhetorical question

• Simile

10.Emotive language is language that...

• describes what a certain emotion feels like

• is used to deliberately evoke a particular emotion

• inappropriate or rude language that people use when they feel emotional