different persuasive devices

1. By Isaac Scerri
WALT. Understand and use persuasive devices using
deep thinking

2. Irony
 things happen and they don’t fit.
 opposite of the literal meaning.
 irony can take many forms.
 E.G we were up at grand parents
farm and we were talking about kangaroos/wallabys
and cooper my little brother said ‘look there's a
kangaroo.
Cooper is only 3

3. Hyperbole/Exaggeration
 Hyperbole means the same as exaggeration and is used
to provoke strong feelings to the audience.
 Exaggeration is used to make things seem really
important even though it can be a simple matter.

4. Cliché
 A phrase that has been used heaps and everyone
knows it.
 An expression, often a figure of speech whose
effectiveness has been worn out through overuse and
excessive familiarity.
 What goes up must come down.

5. Satire
 The use of irony, sarcasm or the like, in exposing,
denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

6. Repetition
 Repetition is when something repeats itself and gets
stuck in your head like a catchy phrase.
 Repetition can be like there's ads that come on all the
time. E.G. spam spam spam o lovely spam o wonderful
spam.

7. Rhetorical Language
 1. Rhetorical question
 Can we really expect the school to keep paying from its limited resources?
 2. Emotive language
 Imagine being cast out into the street, cold, lonely and frightened.
 3. Parallel structures
 To show kindness is praiseworthy; to show hatred is evil.
 4. Sound patterns
 Alliteration: Callous, calculating cruelty – is this what we must expect?

8. Rhetorical Language continued
 5. Contrast
Sometimes we have to be cruel to be kind.
 6. Description and Imagery
 (i.e. using metaphor, simile and personification)
 While we wait and do nothing, we must not forget that the fuse is
already burning.
 7. The ‘rule of three’
 I ask you, is this fair, is it right, is it just?
 8. Repetition
 Evil minds will use evil means

9. Anecdotes
 No one knows why, but we do. Certainly, we enjoy relating to and learning
from stories - and we often can identify with the characters in them.
 If you choose to use a short anecdote in your own writing (and you should give
it serious consideration), it will engage, involve and interest your reader in ways
little else can; it will add a human and personal dimension that can be
irresistible and fascinating.
 But anecdotes need to be believable and lively - and they can also be very
emotional; and because anecdotes are 'true' stories, they can be very
convincing indeed, adding authority to what you write.
 Englishbiz.co.uk
 E.G we were up at grand parents
 farm and we were talking about kangaroos/wallabys and cooper my little brother said
‘look there's a kangaroo.
 Cooper is only 3