English Language GCSE
Persuasive language and rhetoric
What Persuasive language and rhetoric means in English Language GCSE, as defined for Eduqas.
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Using persuasive techniques appropriately, such as rhetorical questions, direct address, repetition, emotive vocabulary or statistics, without letting them overwhelm the content.
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Related terms
- Accurate use of linguistic and literary terminology
- Active listening
- Adapting register to audience and context
- Analysis of language, form and structure across texts
- Anecdote
- Audience and purpose
- Bias and misuse of evidence
- Cohesion and coherence
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