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Phrases To Use in Language Analysis

This document contains a list of phrases and sentence stems for analyzing persuasive language techniques. Some examples include: appealing to a reader's emotions, logic, or self-interest; using repetition, rhetorical questions, or authoritative opinions to sway a reader's viewpoint; and employing inclusive language, analogies, or emotive words to align with or provoke feelings in the reader. The overall aim of many of these techniques is to position the reader to agree with or feel convinced by the writer's argument or perspective.

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Phrases To Use in Language Analysis

This document contains a list of phrases and sentence stems for analyzing persuasive language techniques. Some examples include: appealing to a reader's emotions, logic, or self-interest; using repetition, rhetorical questions, or authoritative opinions to sway a reader's viewpoint; and employing inclusive language, analogies, or emotive words to align with or provoke feelings in the reader. The overall aim of many of these techniques is to position the reader to agree with or feel convinced by the writer's argument or perspective.

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Phrase bank/sentence stems for language analysis

• This creates the impression that...


• This phrase has the effect of...
• The reader is encouraged to feel as though...
• ... thus, the reader may be inclined to change his opinion/decision/position/view point
• ...thus, readers are prompted to b elieve that...
• The writer appeals to the reader's intelligence/ fear/sympathy ... by ...
• The word ____ is used to make the reader feel...
• ... this creates the impression that....
• The writer hopes to sway us to agree with him/her that...
• This creates the effect of...
• Thus the writer appeals to the reader's sense of logic, attempting to sway the reader to
reconsider his or her position that...
• The repetition of the word... is used to strongly emphasise how/ that...
• The writer appeals to the reader's sense of compassion for...
• The writer hopes to evoke sympathy and understanding for....
• The writer uses the phrase... to stress that ...
• ...this is used to undermine opposing arguments b y illustrating the absurdity and lack of
logic in his/her reasoning...
• The writer ridicules this point of view by pointing out that...
• The rhetorical question ... is used to position the reader to feel that his/her viewpoint is
both logical and irrefutable.
• The writer uses inclusive language to align him/herself with the reader and establish a sense
of connection or understanding with their existing viewpoints.
• The writer uses an appeal to self interest when he/she claims...
• The writer uses the emotive words and phrases ... drawing on their strong negative
connotations to reinforce the detrimental/harmful/undesirab le effects of ... in the reader's
mind.
• This attempts to arouse a...response from the reader as...
• The writer cites authoritative opinions to strengthen his/ her argument by positioning the
reader to feel that his/her argument is credible and trustworthy. Thus, the reader is
positioned to be swayed to the view that...
• By using inclusive language to enlist the support of the reader, the writer attempts to
position the reader feel a sense of obligation to agree with the viewpoint that ...
• ...the reader is urged to support the claim that...
• The writer uses figurative language to provoke the reader to visualise... and thus feel/think ...
which therefore seeks to convince them that...
• By using the rhetorical question ..., the writer invites agreement from the reader. This works
in conjunction with ... to position the reader to feel...
• The use of the analogy comparing... seeks to shift the reader's perception on the issue to...
which thus evokes a sense of ...
• Here, the writer appeals to the reader's feelings of ... , by implying that...

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