Persuasive language techniques
Romeo and Juliet
General knowledge
Persuasive writing
General knowledge
100

A technique that uses "we" and "us"

What is inclusive language?

100

The name of Romeo's house

What is Montague?

100

The number of stars on the Australian flag

What is six?

100

The proper name for the group of people at whom the text is aimed

What is an audience?

100

The name of the character played by Matt LeBlanc in Friends

Who is Joey?

200

A technique that employs celebrities, such as Morgan Freeman

What is appeal to celebrity?

200

The individual who marries Romeo and Juliet

Who is Friar Lawrence?

200

An acronym to remember the order of the colours of the rainbow

What is ROYGBIV?

200

The proper name for the style of the text - including letter to the editor, speech

What is a form?

200

The official language of Brazil

What is Portuguese?

300

A technique that asks an open-ended question of the audience

What is a rhetorical question?

300

The town that Romeo is banished to 

What is Mantua?

300

The highest waterfall in the world

What is Angel Falls?

300

The proper name for the outcome on the audience; what an argument, tone or technique causes them to do

What is an effect?

300

A gem whose main element is carbon

What is a diamond?

400

A technique that plays on the audience's worry for their family

What is appeal to family values?

400

A literary device - denotes lines of 10 syllables

What is iambic pentameter?

400

The name of the Greek God of War

Mars

400

The proper name for the author's central desire or belief

What is a contention?

400

The name of the nuclear powerplant which exploded in Ukraine, causing one of the world's worst radioactive disasters

What is Chernobyl?

500

A technique that uses particular language, such as "violent mass murderer"

What is loaded language?

500

The original name of 'Romeo and Juliet', written by Arthur Brooke

What is 'The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet'?

500

The surnames of the last four American Presidents (inclusive of the current President)

Who are Trump, Obama, Bush Jr and Clinton?

500

The proper name for the voice used in the author's arguments; may shift positively or negatively throughout the course of the text

What is a tone?

500

A Nobel Peace Prize winner from Afghanistan; she was shot by the Taliban on the bus to school

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

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