Persuasive Language Techniques

2. Sick of cooking every night? is using which persuasive language technique?

• Alliteration

• Emotive Language

• Exaggeration

• Rhetorical Question

3. What technique has been used here by UNICEF in this picture?

• Emotive Language

• Personal Pronoun

• Expert Opinion

• Anecdote

Tags

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

4. Which technique can be identified in this advertisement?

• Statistics

• Clichés

• Sarcasm

• Randomization

Tags

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

5. What technique to persuade you has been used in this advert?

• Anecdote

• Alliteration

• Connotation

• Simile

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

6. The sentence below is an example of which persuasive language technique?

Using words like ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ to make your audience think you are talking only to them.

• Repetition

• Exaggeration

• Personal Pronouns

• Anecdote

7. Which persuasive technique is in the sentence below?

To go over the top and make things sound better or worse than they are.

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Expert Opinion

• Exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

8. Which persuasive technique can be identified in the sentence below?

Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.

• Emotive Language

• Sympathy

• Emoticon

• Emotional

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

9. Which persuasive technique is this?

Repeating words or phrases so that they stick in your audience’s mind.

• Groups of three

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Emotive Language

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

10. The sentence below is an example of which persuasive language technique?

How would you feel is you had 2 hours of homework every night?

• Emotive Language

• Facts and Statistics

• Anecdote

• Rhetorical question