Persuasive text

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  • A persuasive text aims to convince readers to take action, change their beliefs, or adopt new ideas.
  • Ethos: appeal to ethics or an author's character.
  • Logos: appeal to logic or reason
  • Pathos: sympathy or emotions.
  • Rhetorical Questions: questions that are not intended or meant to be answered.
  • Emotive Language: word designed to arouse, stimulate or invoke.
  • Exaggeration: refers to statements that are amplified.
  • Alliteration: is a rhetorical device that starts with the same letter.
  • Facts and Statistics: various pieces of information.
  • Rule of Three: refers to the utilization of three adjectives.
  • Repetition: a tool writers use to allow the audience to appreciate the power of words used.
  • Parts of persuasive texts: Introduction, Body and Conclusion
  • Introduction: refers to the first paragraph of the text.
  • Body: contains the topic sentence.
  • Conclusion: this synthesizes all the vital point of your argument.
  • Thesis Statement: is a sentence that identifies, determines and introduces the objectives, aims, purposes, focus of your study's topic.
  • Persuasive text: are nonfiction materials that allow the readers to acknowledge.
  • Tone,mood, and diction are needed in order for the audience to feel involved.
  • Augment: to make larger in size, number, strength or extent.
  • Debris: the remains of something broken down.
  • Tycoon: a prominent figure in a particular industry who has amassed substantial wealth and power while building a business empire
  • Repertoire: a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, parts that a company or person is prepared to perform
  • Miscellaneous: consisting of many things of different sorrs
  • Needed in order for the audience to feel involved
    Tone, mood, diction
  • Parts of persuasive texts
    Introduction, body, conclusion
  • Various pieces of information
    Facts and Statistics