Climate Change webpage - Greenpeace UK Flashcards
General stuff
Logo is green and eco friendly Interactive (hyperlinks to keep flow of text etc) Slippery slope argument Side bar for navigation Short, simple headings You can make an account to find out more Mostly opinions presented as facts but contains facts for credibility Addressed to reader
“Take action”
It is down to us to make a change
Contains lots of imperatives
Campaign
“Schadenfreude”
Taking pleasure in others misery
“Serious about tackling climate change?”
Rhetorical question
Paragraph 1
Short sentences to display point
Evidence
Shocking, emotive statistics (150000 people are dying)
Persuasive, dramatic, emotive, urgent theme
Group effort (if we)
Pessimistic
Shows scale of problem
Paragraph 2
More hopeful
Empowering
Emotive (catastrophe)
Compound adjective (ready-to-go)
Paragraph 3
Persuasive
Factual tone
What you can do paragraph
Repetition of “catastrophe”
Alliteration “catastrophic climate change
Makes situation sound easily fixable
Simplifies problem
Group effect
Directly to reader
Repeated use of of plural pronoun to empower and involve reader