English Language GCSE
Persuasive techniques and rhetorical devices
What Persuasive techniques and rhetorical devices means in English Language GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Persuasive techniques and rhetorical devices
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Using persuasive techniques appropriately, for example rhetorical questions, direct address, repetition or emotive language, to influence the audience.
Topics that use Persuasive techniques and rhetorical devices
- Spoken language (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Active listening
- Appropriate response
- Audience awareness
- Dialect
- Planning, rehearsal and delivery
- Purpose and audience awareness
- Register
- Selection and organisation of content
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