Persuasive techniques bingo
A bingo grid with accompanying definitions of the techniques for the teacher to read out. When students hear each definition they have to find the technique that matches it and check it off. This is a good, engaging exercise for helping students to revise persuasive techniques.
To make the exercise more interesting, you could instead distribute about five different versions of the grid, each one having some of the techniques blotted out, leaving blank squares. Award prizes for the first line or full house!
You could instead cut up the individual cards and sort these, so that students can work in teams to analyse a persuasive text, for instance:
Dramatic or emotional impact: emotive words, emotive pictures, forceful phrases, contrasts, play on the reader’s guilt, imagery, exaggeration (hyperbole), shock tactics.
Informal and personal: personal pronouns, humour, chatty style, play on the reader’s sympathy, make positive points personal, anecdotes.
Logic: quote a reliable source, statistics, criticise the opposite opinion, make negative points impersonal.
Stylistic tricks: clusters of three, catchy phrases or slogans, figures of speech, short sentences/paragraphs, rhetorical questions, repetition of words/phrases.
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