Persuasive Language
Language analysis
Short sentence making an impact.
Emotional appeals - dual mortgage bearers, attempting to create sympathy.
Attacks –
Call to action -
Emotive language – desecrate, heavily pregnant wife, very vivid, shocking explicit, Puerile referring to graffiti but also condoning the council as childish and silly.
Hyperbole - heavily pregnant wife, ‘eyesore’ disfigures the landscape, lurid, obscenities that would make even a bikie reel back in disgust, thorn.
Metaphor - obscenities that would make even a bikie reel back in disgust, the wall has been a thorn in the side of the struggling young café owners,
Case study – a mother takes her daughter on a longer route to avoid the disgraceful images.
Letter to the Editor
Attacks – attacks the newspaper for its inaccuracies.
Emotive language – ‘less enlighten remarks’ suggests that the newspaper is dim-it has its facts wrong, ‘irresponsible journalism’. ‘lie’ very harsh yet matter of fact words with no concentration, describes the newspaper as liars.
Appeal to hip pocket – the argument is that if the council supports this individual for their own private property. It will need to do so for all-in turn raising rates and taxes.
Rhetorical question – rhetorically asks the reader if they want to pay more tax, the answer is obviously no.
Call to action – we need to cater for graffiti as well.
Card stacking – they don’t support vandalism.
Plan your analysis
Introduction –
Main body paragraph – 1. Similarities attacks, appeals 2. Emotive language 3. Differences metaphors vs rhetorical question appeals
Graffiti and whether or not the council should have to be responsible for the ’clean up’ process is an issuer explored in a range of media texts. The editorial ‘the good the bad and the ugly’ written in The Daily Tribute on the 16th of July 2009 and an accompanying image, contends that graffiti is a disgrace and damaging to the local public. In response, the Letter to the Editor written by
Short sentence making an impact.
Emotional appeals - dual mortgage bearers, attempting to create sympathy.
Attacks –
Call to action -
Emotive language – desecrate, heavily pregnant wife, very vivid, shocking explicit, Puerile referring to graffiti but also condoning the council as childish and silly.
Hyperbole - heavily pregnant wife, ‘eyesore’ disfigures the landscape, lurid, obscenities that would make even a bikie reel back in disgust, thorn.
Metaphor - obscenities that would make even a bikie reel back in disgust, the wall has been a thorn in the side of the struggling young café owners,
Case study – a mother takes her daughter on a longer route to avoid the disgraceful images.
Letter to the Editor
Attacks – attacks the newspaper for its inaccuracies.
Emotive language – ‘less enlighten remarks’ suggests that the newspaper is dim-it has its facts wrong, ‘irresponsible journalism’. ‘lie’ very harsh yet matter of fact words with no concentration, describes the newspaper as liars.
Appeal to hip pocket – the argument is that if the council supports this individual for their own private property. It will need to do so for all-in turn raising rates and taxes.
Rhetorical question – rhetorically asks the reader if they want to pay more tax, the answer is obviously no.
Call to action – we need to cater for graffiti as well.
Card stacking – they don’t support vandalism.
Plan your analysis
Introduction –
Main body paragraph – 1. Similarities attacks, appeals 2. Emotive language 3. Differences metaphors vs rhetorical question appeals
Graffiti and whether or not the council should have to be responsible for the ’clean up’ process is an issuer explored in a range of media texts. The editorial ‘the good the bad and the ugly’ written in The Daily Tribute on the 16th of July 2009 and an accompanying image, contends that graffiti is a disgrace and damaging to the local public. In response, the Letter to the Editor written by