Persuasive Devices

The burgers are better at Hungry Jacks

• alliteration

• repetition

• emotive language

If we don't do something now, the world may just end!

• modality

• emotive language

• exaggeration

Before you waste food, think about the poor, starving children in Africa.

• exaggeration

• repetition

• emotive language

We can take a stand, we can take action, we can make a difference!

• alliteration

• repetition

• rule of 3

I’m a question that does not require an answer (I’m just there to persuade you to think my way).

• Rhetorical Question

• Emotive Language

• Exaggeration

• Statistics

How could anyone want to watch the tortured animals in circus?

• Rhetorical Question

• Emotive Language

• Exaggeration

• Statistics

I’m the words and phrases that can make the reader feel emotions.

• Three (rule of)

• Emotive Language

• Exaggeration

• Statistics

"The ponies suffer unimaginable pain as they are left to starve."

• Three (rule of)

• Emotive Language

• Exaggeration

• Statistics

I’m information that is untrue or over the top.

• Three (rule of)

• Alliteration

• Exaggeration

• Statistics

I occur when an author says the same thing more than once for emphasis.

• Rhetorical Question

• Emotive Language

• Exaggeration

• Repetition