Persuasive Language Techniques

1. Don't delay, call today! is an example of?

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Rule of 4

2. Sick of cooking every night? is using which persuasive language technique?

• Alliteration

• Emotive Language

• Exaggeration

• Rhetorical Question

3. What technique has been used here by UNICEF in this picture?

• Emotive Language

• Personal Pronoun

• Expert Opinion

• Anecdote

4. Which technique can be identified in this advertisement?

• Statistics

• Clichés

• Sarcasm

• Randomization

5. What technique to persuade you has been used in this advert?

• Anecdote

• Alliteration

• Connotation

• Simile

6. The sentence below is an example of which persuasive language technique?

Using words like ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ to make your audience think you are talking only to them.

• Repetition

• Exaggeration

• Personal Pronouns

• Anecdote

7. Which persuasive technique is in the sentence below?

To go over the top and make things sound better or worse than they are.

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Expert Opinion

• Exaggeration

8. Which persuasive technique can be identified in the sentence below?

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

• Emotive Language

• Sympathy

• Emoticon

• Emotional

9. Which persuasive technique is this?

Repeating words or phrases so that they stick in your audience’s mind.

• Groups of three

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Emotive Language

10. The sentence below is an example of which persuasive language technique?

How would you feel is you had 2 hours of homework every night?

• Emotive Language

• Facts and Statistics

• Anecdote

• Rhetorical question