English
Persuasive techniques.
Definition
Strategies used by writers and speakers to convince an audience to accept a particular viewpoint or take a specific action. These include appeals to emotion, logic, and credibility, as well as techniques like repetition, rhetorical questions, and loaded language.
Examples
Real-world.
- 1 A charity ad using emotional images of animals to persuade viewers to donate
- 2 A politician repeating a slogan to make it memorable
- 3 An editorial using statistics and expert quotes to build a logical case