WorksheetsPersuasive Techniques Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is the writer's position on a persuasive topic or prompt?
Counterargument
Thesis
Supporting argument
Evidence
What are reasons that back up your thesis called?
Thesis
Counterargument
Supporting arguments
Evidence
What is it called when you raise the opposite viewpoint and 'knock it back'?
Loaded Terms
Claim
Statistics
Counterargument
This is an indirect comparison of two unlike things by saying that one 'is' the other.
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Personification
This term is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of more than one word in a row.
Metaphor
Allusion
Alliteration
Simile
Which persuasive technique is this?
Using words like ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ to make your audience think you are talking only to them.
Repetition
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Personal Pronouns
Which persuasive technique is this?
To go over the top and make things sound better or worse than they are.
Emotive language
Alliteration
Hyperbole or exaggeration
Personal pronouns
Which persuasive technique is this?
When three adjectives or descriptive words are used together to make them stand out.
Rhetorical questions
Criticise others' ideas
Repetition
Rule of three
Which persuasive technique is this?
Repeating words or phrases so that they stick in your audience’s mind.
Rule of three
Alliteration
Repetition
Emotive language
Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.
Using questions that don’t need an answer to get the audience to think.
What is this an example of?
Homework is boring, dull and uninteresting.
Exaggeration
Repetition
Emotive Language
Rule of Three
What is this an example of?
If I get one more homework task I am going to move to the moon!
Metaphor
Formal Tone
Hyperbole or exaggeration
Alliteration
95% of pupils feel that there is too much homework.
What is this an example of?
How would you feel is you had 2 hours of homework every night?
Emotive Language
Rule of Three
Facts and Statistics
Rhetorical question
We are the poor, helpless children who are forced to do hours and hours of homework every night.
When you use numbers or evidence to support your views.
Hyperbole
Controversial statements
Facts & statistics
Stereotypes
When you use information/stories from your own life or the life of someone close to you to make an argument.
Hypothetical situation
Statistics
Anecdote or personal story
Opinions of others
Words such as 'undoubtedly', 'certainly', 'must' and 'definitely' are examples of which persuasive technique?
Hyperbole or exaggeration
Rule of Three
Anecdote
High Modality Words
