Section B Techniques

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Colloquial / Chatty Style
So... Right... Well...
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Rhetorical Question
Have you considered this?
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Contrasting ideas/images
I LOST interest but GAINED my life back.
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Shock/dramatic language
If you don't change, life will be irreversible.
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Use personal pronouns
This is our responsibility as we drive towards our goal.
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Hyperbole/Exaggeration
The traffic is endless and relentless.
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Emotive language
They are weak and frightened
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Play on the reader's guilt
We are becoming part of an idle nation - unwilling to change.
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Short sentences
You are in control. It is simple
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Humour
You may even get some hideous helmet hair
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Use statistics
1 in 3, 72%
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Lidt of three
It doubled in men, tripled in women and quadrupled in children.
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Imperatives - command verbs
Stop travelling. Look around at...
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Play on sympathy
Even children as young as six
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Repetition
I am happy and I am fat.
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Subject specific lexis/punning
The abductees experienced some close encounters.
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Quote an expert
Medical professionals say it is "terrifying"
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Anecdote/story
One man/ I once
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Metaphors
In the heart of the city
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Similes
Like a wave of water
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Expressions of doubt
Claimed that may be the possibly
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Blunt language
We need to change -- and fast.
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Pre-modification
Dangerous Climb
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Modal Verbs
Should/would/could/may/might
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Conditionals
If you try this then your life will improve.
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Card 2

Front

Have you considered this?

Back

Rhetorical Question

Card 3

Front

I LOST interest but GAINED my life back.

Back

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Card 4

Front

If you don't change, life will be irreversible.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

This is our responsibility as we drive towards our goal.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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