Persuasive Text vocabulary

Ad Hominem

(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

Examples

a thing characteristic of its kind or illustrating a general rule.

Stereotyping

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Logical Fallacies

are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people.

Ethical appeal

is a method of persuasion that's based on the author's credibility

Emotional appeal

is a method of persuasion that's designed to create an emotional response

Loaded Language

is wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes

Facts

something that actually exists; reality; truth:

Claim

state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof

Exaggeration Logical

stretching the truth / overstatement occurs when a point is made by saying something that would be true, but the truth has been distorted in some way.

Persuasive

writing sometimes involves persuading the reader to perform an action, or it may simply consist of an argument or several arguments to align the reader with the writer's point of view