Persuasive Techniques Flashcards

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1
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Comparison
Like or as.
You’re like a bird.
You’re a bird.

A

Simile. Metaphor.

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You’re an eruption of anger.

A

Something is not. Metaphor

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Emotive Language.

Slaughtered them.

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Creates reader emotion.

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See that blue sky?
Hear that wind?
Feel that rust?
I hate rust, do you?
Smell that rust?
A

Senses

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Who wrote a article piece?

-George Kah

A

Article writer - byline

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Full sentences in a article

A
Not 
.Hey
.There
.Matey
Bullet points
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Murdered man in New York!

“In the New Pub Dam Gurl.”

In this very year….

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Sub-heading

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  • 1345 9304 123

- New york area ish

A

Contact detail

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9
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Faithfully

A

You don’t know them.

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Sincerely

A

You do know them.

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The fat photographer.

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Alliteration

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Slush Flush Mush.

A

Assonance

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13
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Sit down!

A

Verb order

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14
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Cigars all over the place.

-Smoke?

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Imperative

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I guess we don’t love this world?

The man strolled deeply in his sleep like state.

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Rhetorical question

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16
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You, can do this!

A

Connect to the audience.

17
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We and our and us

A

Grouping. First person connection.

18
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Khallos Experiment

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TS1,2,FP,R

19
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Like that one time when Bob murdered me, lmao.

That’s why you shouldn’t go near Phil.

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Short story example as a point.

20
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100 people died, 4000 people caught the flu

A

Numerical reference

21
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He did that.
He didn’t do that.
He is we.

A

Anaphora.

22
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Ha.

Ha.

A

Repetition.

23
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She slipped so stupidly.

A

Audience laugh to engage. Humour.