Persuasive Language Devices

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Across
  1. 2. When the writer deliberately repeats words or phrases.
  2. 5. The use of unemotional, rational and valid arguments to persuade readers.
  3. 6. Attempts to amuse the reader
  4. 7. Involves the reader directly by using words such as ‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’.
  5. 9. Compares one thing or situation with another.
  6. 10. Criticise an event, individual of group through the use of exaggeration and humour
  7. 11. Where one thing described as being another thing.
  8. 12. Deliberately strong words to provoke an emotion in the reader.
Down
  1. 1. The positive or negative implied meaning of words.
  2. 3. A familiar, over-used phrase or expression.
  3. 4. A sweeping statement that suggests what is true for some is true for all.
  4. 8. Attempts to make something seem much better OR much worse than it really is to dramatise a point.