The Language of Persuasion

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Across
  1. 3. Everyone else is doing it.
  2. 7. Sentimental images are used to stimulate feelings of comfort, pleasure and delight.
  3. 11. To pound a message or image into a consumer’s brain
  4. 12. Shows ordinary people using or supporting a product or candidate
  5. 13. Uses a famous person to endorse a product.
  6. 14. Unproven, exaggerated or outrageous claims that are proceeded by words such as may, might, or virtually
  7. 15. Specific features about what a product or service can do for the potential customers.
Down
  1. 1. Coupons, sweepstakes, games with prizes and gifts with purchases create excitement and participation
  2. 2. Superlatives, comparatives, and hyperboles are used to hype a product
  3. 4. Used to make audiences laugh, but provides little information about the product or service
  4. 5. Suggests that if you buy the product or follow certain ideology you too will be happy and successful
  5. 6. Opinion about the product offered by a professional or leader in the field
  6. 8. When a company or product uses a famous person, catchy jingle or powerful emotion creates a strong psychological connection in the customer.
  7. 9. To make you believe the message because the person delivering it is a neutral 3rd party
  8. 10. Fear is used to scare people into buying, donating or otherwise complying