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1.Using questions that don’t need an answer, but get your audience thinking.
Repetition
Personal Pronouns
Rhetorical Questions
Emotive Language
2.Repeating words or phrases so they stick in your audience’s mind long after heard.
Criticize the Opposing View
Repetition
Emotive Language
3.Using words that make people feel upset, sad, angry, guilty, or sympathetic.
Three rule
Emotive Language
Alliteration
4.Using words like “we,” “you,” “us,” or “our” to make the audience think you are only talking to them
Emotive language
Rhetorical Questions
Personal Pronouns
5.Point out, and destroy the opposing argument by invalidating them/their claims
Emotive language
Alliteration
Criticize the opposition
6.Which persuasive technique best fits the following: I believe we will succeed. I believe we will prosper. I believe one day we will be together. I believe.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Repetition
7.Which persuasive technique best fits the following: We came together to fight this, and we will not fail until one of us decides it is over; then we fail as a whole.
Personal pronouns
Emotive language
Anecdote
8.Which persuasive technique best fits the following: When I was a child, my father abandoned us. This put our family in trouble. This also put me in the path to do better.
Exaggeration
Alliteration
Emotive language
9.Which persuasive technique best fits the following: Have you without a doubt that it will be done?
Anecdote
Rhetorical question
Simile
10.Emotive language is language that...
describes what a certain emotion feels like
is used to deliberately evoke a particular emotion
inappropriate or rude language that people use when they feel emotional
11.Short, sharp sentences seem...
factual and undeniably true
fast and as though the advertiser is in a hurry
12.Inclusive language is the use of phrases like 'we', 'us' or 'our' to prompt a person to feel...
understood and as though their feelings matter
so emotional that they feel confused
included, special and/or responsible
13.Repetition is used to...
emphasize a point
make a point seem really important
make a point very memorable
ALL of the above
14."School is the worst thing in the world!" is an example of which persuasive technique(s)?
Hyperbole
Rhetorical question
Anecdote
15."What are you going to do about this problem?" is an example of which technique(s)?
Hyperbole
Rhetorical question
Anecdote
16. "The Coronavirus is causing turmoil and trauma across the country" is an example of which technique(s)?
Rhetorical question
Fact
Alliteration
Emotive language
17. "The history of pandemics is long, deadly and frightening." is an example of which technique(s)?
Three rule
Anecdote
Rhetorical question
Fact
18. "Over 95% of sufferers will only have mild symptoms while around 2% could die." Is an example of which technique(s)?
Simile
Metaphor
Statistic
19. What technique is being used here?
Did anyone listen to the garbage he was spouting?
emotive language
Alliteration
Rhetorical question
20. What technique is being used here?
The Cities 1.5 million households used over 500 billion liters of water.
Exaggeration
Statistics
Emotive language
21.What technique is being used here?
'Reality TV is the museum of social decay.'
Simile
Metaphor
Emotive language
22. What techniques are being used here?
We cannot allow this to happen again. We cannot allow another victim to be forced to live with this. We cannot stand by and do nothing.
Repetition
Metaphor
Emotive language
23.What technique is being used here?
Every weekend the city is overrun by teenagers and beggars.
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Anecdote
24. What technique is being used here?
'I couldn't believe it. Zooming down along a suburban street, the driver was texting on his mobile phone, holding a cup of coffee in his other hand and steering with his knees.'
Emotive language
Anecdote
Rhetorical question
25.What literary technique is employed here?
'Cubby clash: council takes on carpenter dad over Dad's Christmas present.'
Emotive Language
Alliteration
26. Why should I have to put up with foul-mouthed language on public transport?
The persuasive technique used is_______________.
Alliteration
Rhetorical question
Exaggeration
27.Which persuasive technique is this?
Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.
Exaggeration
Emotive language
Anecdote
28. What is this an example of?
If I get one more homework task I am going to move to the moon!
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Anecdote
29.Repetition
"It hurts the individual, it hurts the community and it hurts the country as a whole."
What is the effect on the reader?
Emphasises the writer's viewpoint
and captures attention
Makes the reader feel included
Is humorous to the reader
Evokes sympathy in the reader
30.A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Anecdote
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