APPEALS
REPETITION
RHETORICAL DEVICES
PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES
ELEMENTS OF PERSUASIVE WRITING
PERSUASIVE WRITING
100

Information provided by important people or experts.

What is appeal to authority?

100

The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of every clause.

What is epiphora?

100

A rhetorical question in which the answer is self-evident.

What is interrogatio?

100

If you repeat information in repeating patterns, people will remember and believe it. 

What is repetition?

100

Your argument, belief.

What is the claim?

200

People will believe you since you are part of an elite or special group.

What is snob appeal?

200

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of every clause.

What is anaphora?

200

A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

200

A questions that is not intended to be answered.

What is a rhetorical question?
200

Encourages the reader to take action.

What is the call to action?

300

Getting people to feel happy, sad, or angry.

What is appeal to emotion?

300

The repetition of the last word of a sentence that is also the first word of the next sentence.

What is anadiplosis?

300

An exaggeration of the characteristics of an object or circumstance.

What is hyperbole?

300

If everyone believes it, it must be true.

What is band wagon?

300

Explanation of how/why the research supports the claim

What is the warrant?

400

Convincing facts, numbers, information and logic.

What is appeal to reason?

400

The repetition of a word or group of words within one sentence.

What is germinatio?

400

A comparison made by referring to one thing as another.

What is a metaphor?

400

People will believe you if you appear to be an "Average Joe."

What is plain folks?

400

Claim that disagrees with the claim.

What is the counter claim?

500

Justin Bieber is featured in an advertisement for Proactiv Solution.

What is snob appeal?

500

From Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream"

"Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice."

What is anaphora?

500

From Katie Perry's "Firework:"

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in?

What is germinatio or simile?

500

Mr. Cipriano believes that the Cold War was the worst in history. 

What is appeal to authority?

500

Evidence that disagrees with the counter claim.

What is the rebuttal?