contrastsFree!personalpronounsplay onthereader’sguiltimageryemotivewordsrhetoricalquestionshumourforcefulphraseschattystyleclustersof threerepetitionof words/phrasesplay onthereader’ssympathyanecdotesquote areliablesourceemotivepicturesmakepositivepointspersonalmakenegativepointsimpersonalshocktacticsexaggeration(hyperbole)criticisetheoppositeopinionfiguresofspeechstatisticscatchyphrasesor slogansshortsentences/paragraphscontrastsFree!personalpronounsplay onthereader’sguiltimageryemotivewordsrhetoricalquestionshumourforcefulphraseschattystyleclustersof threerepetitionof words/phrasesplay onthereader’ssympathyanecdotesquote areliablesourceemotivepicturesmakepositivepointspersonalmakenegativepointsimpersonalshocktacticsexaggeration(hyperbole)criticisetheoppositeopinionfiguresofspeechstatisticscatchyphrasesor slogansshortsentences/paragraphs

Persuasive Techniques - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. contrasts
  2. Free!
  3. personal pronouns
  4. play on the reader’s guilt
  5. imagery
  6. emotive words
  7. rhetorical questions
  8. humour
  9. forceful phrases
  10. chatty style
  11. clusters of three
  12. repetition of words/ phrases
  13. play on the reader’s sympathy
  14. anecdotes
  15. quote a reliable source
  16. emotive pictures
  17. make positive points personal
  18. make negative points impersonal
  19. shock tactics
  20. exaggeration (hyperbole)
  21. criticise the opposite opinion
  22. figures of speech
  23. statistics
  24. catchy phrases or slogans
  25. short sentences/ paragraphs