Persuasive Terms

A reference to a well known person, place event, literary work, or work of art.

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Analogy

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together.

• allusion

• allegory

• alliteration

• analogy

A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.

• metaphor

• simile

• myth

• personification

The art of persuasive speaking or writing

• Parallelism

• cliche

• Rhetoric

• Repetition

What is imagery?

• The way the text makes the reader feel.

• The writer's attitude towards a subject.

• Hints the writer gives about what may happen.

• Language that appeals to the senses including visual.

Using ethics, a person's right from wrong, to persuade

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Rhetoric

• Allusion

Logos

• Using emotions to persuade

• Appealing to a person's sense of logic to persuade

• The art of persuasive speaking or writing

• Asking a question to persuade someone to your side

Pathos

• Using emotions to persuade

• Appealing to a person's sense of logic to persuade

• The art of persuasive speaking or writing

• Asking a question to persuade someone to your side

The art of persuasive speaking or writing when you ask a question but not to get an answer

• Rhetorical Question

• cliche

• Rhetoric

• Repetition

A comparison between two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'

• metaphor

• simile

• myth

• personification