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.

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