This persuasive strategy makes the product seem very popular and is directed towards a specific group of people.
What is Peer Pressure?
100
When things are in order of time.
What is chronological order?
100
Groups of lines in a poem. (like a paragraph but for a poem)
What is a stanza?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
When they use emotions that touch the viewer/reader using descriptive language or emotional words.
What is loaded words?
200
This persuasive strategy makes the product or idea seem very popular, and is geared to people of all ages.
What is Bandwagon.
200
When the text is explaining all the similarities and differences between topics.
What is compare and contrast?
200
A pause, space, or when a line ends before the sentence is complete and is then placed on the next line, for example:
Into the Valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
What is a line break?
200
C comparison of two unlike things not using the words "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
200
When vowel sounds are repeated at the beginnings of each word.
What is assonance?
300
When a certain phrase, idea, word, sound or image is mentioned over and over again.
What is repetition.
300
When the writer is explaining to the reader what happened and WHY it happened or how it impacted other events/people.
What is cause and effects?
300
When there is a pattern of rhyming words at the ends of each line, for example :
There was a fat dog,
He laid down on a log,
He did a whole lot of licken
when he at a giant chicken!
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
What is aabb
300
When someone gives human qualities to non-human things. Example "The wind howled"
What is personification.
300
A statement that can be proven either by eye-witness, first hand experience or using valid resources.
What is a fact?
400
When someone testifies that a product or idea works, sometimes using celebrities or well known figures to speak out in favor of it.
What is testimonial.
400
The writing is in an order that makes sense, such as a how-to sequence.
What is logical order?
400
The pattern of sounds in a poem, or the "beat" to the poem as you read.
What is rhythm?
400
When a phrase says one thing but means another. for example, "break a leg" means "good luck."
What is idiom?
400
An opinion or a claim can also be known as
What is a proposition?
500
The purpose of using persuasive strategies is to
What is buy, believe or do something.
500
When a writer organizes the text to tell you what his claim is and all the reasons why his opinion or claim is right.
What is Proposition and Support?
500
When consonant sounds are repeated within the words or phrases. Example, "pitter patter" or "silly billy"
What is consonance?
500
When consonant sounds are repeated at the beginnings of each word.
What is alliteration?
500
The message about life or human nature that the writer wants the reader to take away from the story.