Persuasive Devices

A question that doesn't need an answer.

• Rhetorical Question

• Tripling

• Uniting the audience

• Impertative verbs

Including the person directly; using 'you', 'I', 'we'…

• Rhetorical question

• Direct address

• Alliteration

• Facts and figures

Things that are known, or proved to be.

• Direct address

• Rhetorical question

• Alliteration

• Facts and figures

Verbs that command the reader to do something.

• Rhetorical question

• Tripling

• Direct address

• Imperative verbs

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.

• Hyperbole

• Uniting the audience

• Imperative verbs

• Direct address

The repetition of the same sounds, or of the same kinds of sounds, at the beginning of words.

• Alliteration

• Uniting the audience

• Imperative verbs

• Direct address

Getting the audience to feel as if they are involved.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Uniting the audience

• Direct address

Repeating the same word or phrase for effect

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Rhetorical question

• Alliteration