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Consumer

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a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

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Persuade

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induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument.

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Manipulate

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To control or influence a person or situation

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Endorsement

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The action of endorsing something or someone

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Logo

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a symbol or other small design adopted by an organization to identify its products

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Slogan

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a short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising.

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Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Brand

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type of product manufactured by a particular company under a particular name.

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Product

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an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale.

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Repetition.

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the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

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Imagery

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visually description or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

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Jargon

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special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand.

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Motif

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a decorative image or design, especially a repeated one forming a pattern.

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Statistics

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a fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data.

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Rhetorical Question

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a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered

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Pun

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a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

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Target Audience

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a particular group at which a product such as a film or advertisement is aimed.

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Superlative

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of the highest quality or degree.

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Imperative

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of the highest quality or degree.

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Connotation

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an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

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Layout

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the way in which text or pictures are set out on a page.

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Composition

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The way in which something is made up

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Copy

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a thing made to be similar or identical to another

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Buzz Words

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a word or phrase, often an item of jargon, that is fashionable at a particular time or in a particular context.

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Alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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Rhyme

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correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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Personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Stereotype

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a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

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Subconsciously

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from the subconscious mind

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Colour

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the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.