Persuasive Techniques

Aren’t all people people regardless of our nationality or color?

• Emotive words

• Rhetorical Question

• Catchy phrase 

So many people are suffering around the world. You have the power to help.  

• Emotive words

• Rhetorical Question

• Analogy

The Ministry of Health has confirmed 26 new COVID19 cases in March of 2020 and is tracking the pattern of spread across the island.  

• Authoritative Evidence

• Rhetorical Question

• Analogy

Lush, green valleys and hills become permanently transformed into empty spaces of scarred wasteland. 

• Contrast or Emotive Words

• Direct personal appeal or exaggeration

• Analogy or Evidence

Inflation rates have a strong hold on hardworking Jamaicans, daily choking the life out of their economy and bleeding the citizens dry. 

• Emotive Words

• Direct personal appeal

• Evidence

We must learn to take responsibility for our actions. We must learn to fearlessly call out injustice. We must learn. We must learn.  

• Analogy or Contrast

• Direct personal appeal or Repetition

• Direct personal appeal or Evidence

If a person hoards garbage and other things in their home, as a result there is no space left to be filled. Many rodents see that as an opportunity to move in. The same principle applies when we put things that are bad for us into our body. 

• Emotive words

• Rhetorical Question

• Analogy