What am I?

I express my personal beliefs or ideas to try to persuade you.

• Direct address

• Opinion

• Fact

• Rhetorical question

Can we afford to wait any longer?

• Emotive language

• Statistics

• Repetition

• Rhetorical question

I make the reader feel something like happiness, anger or sadness

• Hyperbole

• Emotive language

• Statistics

• Repetition

82% of people admit to talking to their pets as if they were human.

• Repetition

• Direct address

• Statistics

• Hyperbole

A word or phrase is used several times to emphasise an idea ensuring the message stays with the audience.

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Direct address

• Anecdote

I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!

• Direct address

• Anecdote

• Hyperbole

• Fact

I speak to the reader directly.

• Anecdote

• Fact

• Triplet / rule of three

• Direct address

Last year, I forgot my best friend’s birthday, and she didn’t let me hear the end of it. Now, I set three reminders!

• Repetition

• Anecdote

• Hyperbole

• Direct address

I am something that can be proven to be true.

• Fact

• Triplet / rule of three

• Statistics

• Direct address

Pizza is crispy, gooey, and absolutely heavenly.

• Opinion

• Triplet / rule of three

• Anecdote

• Emotive language