Persuasive Language

Language designed to persuade, often using elaborate or impressive techniques:

An appeal to authority, credibility, or the speaker's character:

An appeal to the audience's emotions:

An appeal to reason or logic using facts and evidence:

A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief:

The action of proving an argument or theory wrong:

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses:

Using the same grammatical structure in successive clauses for emphasis:

The politician's speech was full of empty but lacked concrete policies.

By citing her medical degree, the speaker established strong .

The charity campaign relied heavily on , showing images of suffering to move the audience.

A good scientific argument must be built on solid and factual evidence.

He made a bold that his theory would revolutionise physics.

Her brilliant of the opposing argument left the debaters speechless.

The speech used , repeating 'We will fight' at the start of every sentence.

The phrase 'easy come, easy go' is an example of syntactic .

Academic writers often use like 'might' or 'could' to soften their claims.

The journalist published a fierce against the government's economic policy.

Write a paragraph explaining the key elements of a convincing speech. Use at least six words from this chapter.