Persuasive Devices

'They strike the grandmother going to collect wood for the fire. They strike the child on their way to school'

What is this an example of?

• repetition

• list

• metaphor

• pattern of three

'These mines are devils buried in the earth, waiting to kill again.'

What is this an example of?

• repetition

• short sentence

• list

• metaphor

'The number of countries affected stretches across the Middle East, through Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, and onwards.'

What is this an example of?

• list

• metaphor

• repetition

• short sentence

'The world is too little aware of the damage these mines cause to land, life and limb.'

What is this an example of?

• short sentence

• metaphor

• pattern of three

• repetition

'We must act now.'

What is this an example of?

• pattern of three

• metaphor

• repetition

• short sentence

'I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.'

What is this an example of?

• metaphor

• repetition

• list

• short sentence

'So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.'

What is this an example of?

• metaphor

• repetition

• list of three

• adjective

'we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual'

What is this an example of?

• metaphor

• pattern of three

• list

• repetition

Why is repetition used?

• To build up an argument

• To create a comparison

• To emphasise key words and ideas

• To develop a close relationship between the audience and speaker

Why are pronouns (you, I, we) used?

• To build up an argument

• To create a comparison

• To emphasise key words and ideas

• To develop a close relationship between the audience and speaker