Poem And Song Use Persuasive Techniques

The poem and song use explicit persuasive techniques to draw the attention of the audience to an aspect of the topic. To create an effective text type the author needs to use persuasive techniques in order to transport the message affectively as it will affect whether the audience enjoys the text type. The author has used repetition in the song to emphasise the young age of the soldiers and create empathy with the audience is when it states: “I was only nineteen”. The author of the poem has used repetition to emphasise that the soldiers are left with nothing when it states: “All emotion, all caring, all feeling” The song states “Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out at Puckapunyal” and the poem states “A whacked world stilted, tilted,”.