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