Explore Persuasive Devices with a Digital Game

When creating a recipe for the perfect persuasive text, one of the top ingredients would surely be persuasive devices… and plenty of them! Persuasive devices are powerful tools that writers use to influence and convince their audience to adopt a particular point of view or take a specific action. Teaching students about persuasive devices when teaching the persuasive genre is crucial as it equips them with the skills to effectively communicate their ideas, opinions and arguments in a compelling manner. 

This digital resource has been designed by our experienced teacher team to help your students solidify their understanding of persuasive devices and how they can be used in a persuasive text. Each slide contains a sentence, accompanied by three persuasive device options. The students must choose the correct persuasive device used in the sentence. There are 20 questions to work through.

For example:

Screen time is incredibly dangerous in childhood as it melts children’s growing brains.

Is this an example of:

• A rhetorical question
• Hyperbole
• Evidence

In this case, the correct answer is… hyperbole!

If students choose the incorrect answer, they are directed to a slide that encourages them to go back and try again. If the student chooses the correct answer, they are directed to a slide that provides positive reinforcement and allows them to progress to the next question.

This resource downloads as either a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides format. Simply project the resource onto your screen and work through the slides as a class for a paperless lesson on the power of persuasive devices!

Why Persuasive Devices Are Essential in Persuasive Writing

As previously mentioned, learning how to incorporate persuasive devices into their persuasive writing is a crucial skill for our students to learn. Here are a few key reasons why this skill is so important:

• Persuasive devices build author-audience relationships – Using rhetorical questions, inclusive language or a well-crafted simile or metaphor can capture the reader’s attention and draw them to sympathise with the author’s stance.
• Persuasive devices enhance credibility – Using evidence such as quotes from experts, research studies results or numerical statistics lends authority to the argument being presented, further convincing the audience that the author is knowledgeable and correct.
• Persuasive devices pull at the audience’s heartstrings – Using emotive language helps appeal to the emotions of the audience, lending further support to the author’s stance.

Download To Explore Persuasive Devices Examples

Use the Download button above to access your preferred version of this resource. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template before accessing it.)

Be sure to operate the presentation in Slideshow mode to enable the interactive features.

More Resources for Your Lessons on Persuasive Devices

Click below for a peek at Teach Starter’s extensive range of curriculum-aligned, teacher-created resources to use when teaching persuasive devices to your students!

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