Persuasive techniques - presentation and matching cards activity

This phenomenal bundle provides you with the materials to teach and practice 12 different persuasive techniques, their definitions, examples and effects.

The bundle consists of:

presentation with detailed information about each of the 12 persuasive techniques (with detailed teacher’s notes)
matching cards that enable students to revise and practice what they learned in the presentation
Together, these two resources help your students learn about persuasive techniques quickly and effectively.

PRESENTATION

For successful argumentative writing and analysis, students need to be very familiar with persuasive devices.

This fully editable 38-slide presentation offers an in-depth look into the most commonly used rhetorical devices, including:

alliteration, anecdote, rhetorical questions, imperative, personal pronouns, exaggeration/hyperbole, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics and triplets/list of three.

The techniques are organized into a simple, easy-to-remember acronym:

A RIPE FOREST.

The presentation contains information about the definition, examples and effects of every technique.

This helps students understand:

what the technique is
how it’s used in everyday speech and literature
and how it helps persuade the reader to agree with the author
The pack also includes 8 pages of detailed teacher’s notes.

MATCHING CARDS

Understanding the definitions, examples and effects of different persuasive techniques can be difficult and confusing. Students often struggle to grasp these concepts and apply that knowledge in their own writing and analysis. This set of matching cards that can be used for revision and practice is an excellent way to your students build a strong foundation in understanding how different persuasive devices work.

The set focuses on the following persuasive techniques (contained in the acronym A RIPE FOREST):

alliteration
anecdote
rhetorical questions
imperative
personal pronouns
exaggeration/hyperbole
facts
opinions
repetition
emotive language
statistics
triplets/list of three
The set consists of:

12 technique cards
12 definition cards
36 example cards (three for each technique)
27 effects cards (some effects can apply to several different techniques)