Persuasive techniques

Can you match the technique to its description and example?

Technique Description Example

Saying nice things

RHETORICAL about the reader to We all feel that …
QUESTION get them on your Surely you can see
side

Hunting is evil, cruel

To present beliefs as and outdated.
TRIPLES if they are factual
truths Do it well, do it fast
and do it now.

Why would anyone

To repeat an idea or want to hunt foxes
image three times, with dogs?
OPINION AS FACT
usually in a slightly
Isn’t the solution
different way
obvious?

A question designed The fox is torn viciously

to make the reader apart by savage dogs.
SUPERLATIVE
think; doesn’t need You too can be
an answer beautiful.

Adjective to imply As you are the sort of

EMOTIVE
the highest or lowest customer that
LANGUAGE appreciates quality…
quality

Refers to people to This is the best school

identify the in the area.
PRONOUNS
reader/writer It is the worst book
relationship ever written.

This is an excellent
Words and phrases to school.
FLATTERY make the reader feel
something Obviously, hunting is
cruel.

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