English Persuasive Techniques
Appeals
Loyalty and patriotism
Fear and insecurity
Hip-pocket nerve
Tradition and custom
Family values
Common sense
Authority
Sense of justice
Reasoning
Emotive
Deductive
Inductive
Evidence (including statistics, graphs and diagrams)
Language
Anecdote
Reason and logic
Ad hominem attack
Language
Emotive
Analogy
Alliteration
Connotations and loaded words
Cliche
Exaggeration, overstatement and hyperbole
Inclusive language
Irony
metaphor and simile
pun
Repetition
Straw man argument
Rhetorical question