Persuasive techniques
- Persuasive techniques - general
- Acknowledging the opposing argument
- Alliteration
- Allusions to time
- Anecdote
- Assonance
- Attacks
- Call to action
- Cliche
- Colloquial language
- Consonance
- Direct address
- Emotive language
- Euphemism
- Graphs
- Humour
- Hyperbole
- Imagery
- Inclusive language
- Jargon
- Listing
- Logical structure
- Metaphor
- Personal anecdote
- Phonetic agreement
- Pun
- Question
- Quotes
- Repetition
- Rhetorical question
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
- Sarcasm
- Short sharp sentence
- Signposting
- Comparisons
- Statistics
- Style
- Tables
- Vested interest
- Word play
- Words with connotations
- Writer re-positioning
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