Persuasive Devices
What is a rhetorical question?
Asking a question without expecting an answer.
What is an appeal to fear?
Persuading by making the audience feel fear is an example of this appeal.
What is hyperbole?
This technique uses exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.
Words like "terrifying" or "heartbreaking" are examples of this type of language.
Emotive Language
A statement that can be proven true or false.
What is repetition?
Repeating a word or phrase to emphasise an idea.
What is an appeal to FOMO (fear of missing out)?
Persuading the audience to feel they are missing out on something is called this.
What is imagery?
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
This type of emotive language is used to make something sound worse than it really is, like calling a small mistake a "disaster."
Exaggeration.
A personal belief or view that cannot be proven true.
An opinion.
What is alliteration?
A device that uses the same starting sound or letter for several words in a sentence.
What is an appeal to belonging?
Advertisers often use this to make people feel that they are part of a group.
What is softening language?
Replacing a harsh or blunt statement with a more polite or mild one is called this.
Words like "heroic" or "noble" are used to create positive feelings and admiration. Hint: the answer has three words.
Positive emotive language.
This type of statement combines factual information with personal beliefs.
A mixed statement.
What is a simile?
Comparing two things directly using "like" or "as" is known as this.
What is an appeal to nationalism?
Appealing to the pride a person has in their country.
What is emotive language?
Refers to the use of words and phrases designed to evoke an emotional response in the reader or listener.
Using harsh or negatively charged words to make the audience feel anger or disgust is known as this.
Negative emotive language.
Advertisers often present opinions as if they are this.
Facts.
What is personification?
A phrase that gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is an appeal to pity?
This appeal encourages people to feel sorry for someone or something.
What is an oxymoron?
This technique uses two opposite ideas in the same sentence to highlight contrast.
This technique uses emotionally loaded words to provoke a strong reaction, often to manipulate the audience's feelings.
A loaded term.
How can you identify the difference between fact and opinion?
Analytical/critical thinking.