english reading exam language techiques or "how" questions
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- Created on: 02-01-13 12:43
Colloquial / Chatty style
So…
Right...
Well…
Rhetorical questions
Have you considered this?
Contrasting ideas/images
I lost interest but gained my life back
Shock/dramatic language
If you don’t change, life will be irreversible.
Use personal pronouns
This is our responsibility as we drive towards our goal.
Hyperbole/
Exaggeration
The traffic is endless and relentless
Emotive language
They are weak and frightened
Play on the reader’s guilt
We are becoming part of an idle nation – unwilling to change.
Short Sentences
You are in control.
It is simple.
Humour
You may even get a some hideous helmet hair
Use statistics
1 in 3
72%
List of three
it doubled in men, tripled in women and quadrupled in children
Imperatives – command verbs
Stop travelling
Look around at…
Play on sympathy
Even children…
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