WorksheetsPersuasive Techniques in Argument Lesson
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Using words like ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ to make your audience think you are talking only to them.
Personal Pronouns or Inclusive language
When you pick holes in your opposition’s argument so that your point of view sounds better.
To go over the top and make things sound better or worse than they are.
When three adjectives or phrases are used together to make them stand out.
Rule or groups of three
Repeating words or phrases so that they stick in your audience’s mind.
Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.
Repeating the consonant sounds at the beginning of words to make them stand out.
Which persuasive technique is this? Using questions that don’t need an answer to get the audience to think.
Emotive language
Rhetorical questions
Criticise others' views
Alliteration
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
Alliteration
What is this an example of?
95% of pupils feel that there is too much homework.
Exaggeration
Facts and Statistics
Emotive Language
Repetition
What is this an example of?
How would you feel if you had 2 hours of homework every night?
Emotive Language
Groups of Three
Facts and Statistics
Rhetorical question
What is this an example of?
We are the poor, helpless children who are forced to do hours and hours of homework every night.
Exaggeration
Repetition
Groups of Three
Emotive Language
What is this an example of?
...remember what it was like to be at school, remember how much work you had.
Exaggeration
Repetition
Emotive Language
Facts and Statistics
An attack is designed to insult, dismiss, embarrass or undermine the other side.
True
False
Which persuasive technique is this? Why pay for Netflix when Youtube is free?
Rhetorical question
Inclusive language
Hyperbole
Facts
Which persuasive technique is this?
If you read for 20 minutes a day, you will see 1.8 million words a year.
Rhetorical question
Anecdote
Expert opinion
Statistics
Which persuasive technique is this? Dr Michael Brown states that the medication is of no risk to patients.
Exaggeration
Appeal to fear
Statistics
Expert opinion
Which persuasive technique is this? When I was younger, I used to play near the river behind my house. One day...
Expert opinion
Statistics
Repetition
Anecdote
Which persuasive technique is this? By 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
Repetition
Fact
Anecdote
Emotive language
A commercial about abandoned animals needing a shelter or a forever home. They ask for a small donation to help these struggling animals.
Celebrity Endorsement
Emotional Appeal
Testimonial
Bandwagon
What is this an example of?
Homework is boring, dull, and uninteresting.
Exaggeration
Repetition
Emotive Language
Rule of Three
