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Persuasive Writing Techniques

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The art of convincing others.

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1
When you exaggerate a lot, it's called...?
Hyperbole
Rhetoric
Litotes
Repetition
2
Flattery is when...
You ask your audience a question.
You tell your audience what to do.
You compliment your audience.
You insult your audience.
3
Emotive language is...
Language to make the reader feel a certain way.
The same as figurative language.
Language to prove a point.
Language to state facts.
4
If you demonize people who have different views from yours, you are...?
Saying these people are bad.
Saying these people are clever.
Saying these people are stupid.
Saying these people are good.
5
Imperative language is...?
When you tell people what to do.
When you try to explain something.
When you get emotional.
When you try to dodge a question.
6
Figurative language is...
Language involving numbers.
Language where you tell the reader what to do.
Metaphors, similes, personification.
Nouns, verbs and adjectives.
7
Words like "Us", "We", and "You" (used to make the reader feel you're in it together) are...?
Verbs
Nouns
Adjectives
Pronouns
8
A rhetorical question is...?
One that's designed to make someone angry.
A stupid question.
One that already suggests its own answer.
One that's designed to confuse.
9
What technique involves using the same word lots of times?
Repetition
Metaphor
Statistics
Anecdote
10
Factual data in the form of numbers is...?
Statistics
Language
Vocabulary
Characteristics
11
Easy starter: your view on a topic is your...?
Opinion
Minion
Onion
Dominion
12
What's it called when you give an example in the form of a factual story?
Giving an anecdote
Rambling on.
A waste of time.
Being fictitious.