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 Relevant to: Paper 1: Extended Response Writing Paper 2: Directed Writing Paper 2: Narrative Writing PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES Writers can use a range of techniques to persuade. When you’re reading persuasive writing—or writing persuasively yourself—you need to think carefully about how techniques like these are used to position the reader to accept a particular point of view. 1. Adjective.  Describing words, often used to make the reader feel a particular way about an issue. e.g. “Reality shows allow us to feel a  bland , artificial  version of that incredible thrill you get from having a crack and chasing your ambitions.” 2. Adverbs.  Adverbs are words that modify adjectives or verbs. Like adjectives, they are selected to make a reader think or feel about something in a particular way. e.g.  They had eaten it during a weekend trip to the high country and died  horribly . 3. Alliteration.   The repetition of words starting with th...

Passage   The Nightblooming Jazzmen   The narrator has successfully auditioned for the job of drummer in a small jazz band. He has been invited to play with the band at their next ‘gig’. This concert will be the last of a series of open-air summer concerts in a local park. The existing members of this jazz band first played together in a bigger band after they had retired.   The dudes are severely elderly, these Nightblooming Jazzmen. They wear white belts and bow ties, trousers pulled up high.   ‘Our angle is we’re old,’ they say. ‘You’ll have to dress the part if you’re going to be our pulse, drumbo.’ A couple of them have serious moustaches. I paste one on for the gig, bleach my eyebrows and pop on a straw hat.   They have the coolest names: Clyde, Chet, Wally and Hal. When I say my name is Nathanial, they say, ‘You can’t use a name like that.’   After my audition, Clyde comes over as I’m packing up my drums. Grinning, he says I’ve ...