S2 Exercise 24: Persuasion (4)
PERSUASION TASK 3
Now that you have completed and gone over these exercises as a class, make a table of all the techniques used to persuade. The first couple are done for you.
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Emotive Language |
Words which are designed to suggest the feeling of the writer eg, anger and to create the same feeling in the reader. |
‘excruciating pain’ ‘cruel’, ‘disgusting’, ‘unjustified’ |
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Superlatives
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Addressing the reader
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Commands
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Questions
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Rhetorical questions
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