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Persuasive Techniques

Authored by Faustiene Smith

English

7th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Persuasive Techniques
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1.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which rhetorical device AND technique are being used when...
the speaker says ‘we’, ‘our’, and ‘us’ to make the audience think they are connected.

personal pronouns

Alliteration
Exaggeration

forced teaming

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique/device is being defined below?
To go over the top and make things sound better or worse than they are.

Emotive language
Alliteration

Hyperbole

Personal pronouns

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RI.7.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which rhetorical device is being described below?
The writer repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses or sentences.

Groups of three
Alliteration

Anaphora

Emotive language

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

4.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique AND appeal are being used in the following sentence?
Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.

Pathos

Emotive language
Personal pronouns
Exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.L.7.5C

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which rhetorical device is being described below?

The writer repeats the consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

Alliteration
Exaggeration
Groups of three
Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which rhetorical device is being described below?
The writer uses a question in which the answer is implied to highlight something the reader knows.

Simile

Rhetorical question

Hypophora

Alliteration

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which rhetorical device is being described below?
The writer asks a question and then proceeds to answer it.

Simile

Rhetorical question

Hypophora

Alliteration

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