Persuasive Devices

A question that doesn't need an answer.

• Rhetorical Question

• Tripling

• Uniting the audience

• Impertative verbs

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

• Rhetorical question

• Direct address

• Alliteration

• Facts and figures

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Things that are known, or proved to be.

• Direct address

• Rhetorical question

• Alliteration

• Facts and figures

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Verbs that command the reader to do something.

• Rhetorical question

• Tripling

• Direct address

• Imperative verbs

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• Hyperbole

• Uniting the audience

• Imperative verbs

• Direct address

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Getting the audience to feel as if they are involved.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Uniting the audience

• Direct address

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Repeating the same word or phrase for effect

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Rhetorical question

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4