Persuasive Devices

What is the main purpose of using persuasive devices in your writing?

• Appeal to the emotions of your reader.

• Make your writing more interesting to read.

• To get the reader to adopt your view.

• To entertain the reader.

What is a good example of emotive language?

• It was a horrific tragedy.

• He was so very sad.

• It was a boring evening.

• The child was left alone.

What Persuasive Device is this?

"I was so shocked, I almost died".

• Inclusive Language

• Emotive language

• Exaggeration

• Generalisation

What Figurative Language device is this?

"The curtain of night swept over the town"

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

What persuasive device is this?

Deforestation causes habitat loss, flooding and climate problems.

• Alliteration

• Emotive language

• Rule of three

• Metaphor

'If we don't act now we will be in mortal danger.'

• Inclusive language

• Emotive language

• Exaggeration

• Figurative language

"We must all try to write with purpose, write with feeling and most importantly, write with persuasive techniques".

• Alliteration

• Figurative language

• Emotive Language

• Repetition

What Figurative language device is this an example of?

"He was as good as gold".

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Exaggeration

• Sarcasm

"There is more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere now than at any time in human history".

What persuasive device is this?

• Emotive language

• Exaggeration

• Facts and statistics

• Alliteration

“What can we do to help prevent global warming?”

What two persuasive devices are used here?

• Rhetorical question

• exaggeration

• emotive language

• Inclusive language