Persuasive Devices - Knowing the Words Inside Out! (Helpsheets, Poster, and Worksheet Templates)

These colourful, engaging and informative posters/ help-sheets are perfect to help your students gain a broad and deep understanding of each of the key persuasive devices, thus vastly improving their textual analysis and enhancing their persuasive/argumentative writing attempts.

Each sheet displays the key word in the middle, and then answers some of the key questions surrounding the words, including:
- What does it mean?
- How many syllables does it have?
- What are examples of it?
- How do I spell it?
- When would I use this?
- What type of word is it?
- Where does the word come from?

There are sheets for: Statistics, Personal Pronouns, Anecdotes, Rhetorical Questions, Repetition, Colloquial Language, Connectives, List of Three, Imperatives, Emotive Language. These can be used as help-sheets as students write (my students love this) or blown up to A3 to use as classroom posters.

I have also provided blank templates for each word, so that students can fill in the everything that they know about the words themselves, which makes for an excellent starter, plenary, or recap activity.