The document discusses various persuasive devices that can be used in deep thinking including: irony, hyperbole/exaggeration, clichés, satire, repetition, rhetorical language techniques, and anecdotes. It provides examples and definitions for each device to illustrate how they can be employed persuasively. Rhetorical language techniques include rhetorical questions, emotive language, parallel structures, sound patterns, contrast, description/imagery, and the rule of three. Anecdotes are also discussed as engaging the reader through relatable stories.

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