Writing to argue and persuade: techniques
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A beautifully illustrated resource full of examples of commonly used persuasive techniques:
- alliteration
- emotive language
- opinions
- humour
- statistics
- rhetorical questions
- direct address
- rebuttals
- punctuation for effect
- repetition
- triplets / lists of three
- anecdotes
- first person
- imperatives
- examples
- varying sentence length for effect
- contrasting pairs
- exclamatory style.
Use this with students as a revision aid, to identify techniques in persuasive texts, or as a checklist for writing to persuade.
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