ARRESTED Techniques

You will find the majority of ARRESTED techniques in__________writing.

• Persuasive

• Instructive

• Informative

• Descriptive

Name each of the ARRESTED techniques.

Direct address is the use of__________.

• Nouns

• Pronouns

• Adverbs

• Adjectives

This technique can be used an evidence to support your point.

• Statistics

• Rhetorical question

• Triplets

• Emotive language

In informative writing you sometimes need to use persuasive writing to convince the reader to agree with you. Pick 3 techniques that feature heavily in persuasive writing.

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Statistics

• Triplets

• Emotive language

This technique is used to make certain words stand out from the rest of the sentence.

• Triplets

• Direct address

• Alliteration

• Rhetorical question

This technique is good to use at the beginning and end of your writing to emphasise your point.

• Rhetorical question

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Exaggeration

Direct address is a technique where you________.

• Instruct the reader

• Explain to the reader

• Speak to the reader

You can use these 2 techniques to make a powerful point.

• Direct address

• Exaggeration

• Triplets

• Emotive language

Exaggeration is also know as______.

• Pathetic fallacy

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Foreshadowing