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1. A pejorative/attack, designed to criticise and devalidate another person or argument, belittles the opponents arguments, helps writer gain authority. 2. Rhetorical question: supposes or implies its own answer and therefore makes the right answer appear obvious 3. Statistic: Provides credibility to the argument and makes them feel as if the writer is researched on the issue. 4. Repetition: the reuse of words or phrases reiterates the argument being made, highlights the most important points and creates a rhythm that is memorable. 5. Emotive language/appeal to emotion: used in an attempt to persuade people through emotional manipulation specify which emotion 6. Inclusive/ exclusive language: create a sense of unity or a creates and us and them situation. 7. Alliteration: draw attention to certain phrases and underscores these ideas through repeated sounds’ 8. Appeals: to reason or evoke an emotional response from the reader. 9. Call to action/imperative: prompts encourage or even incite to action, provides a solution to the problem, empowers the audience to make a change 10. Hyperbole: Argues through use of shock tactics, undermine oppositions argument, easily rebutted. 11. Assumptive adverb: undoubtedly, uses language which supposes something is already true or evident 12. Generalisation/Absolutist language: suggests that something us absolutely the case, therefore there is no denying it. People who are not of the same mindset as everyone else is seen as the outsider....