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These bingo cards contain 24 persuasive writing and rhetorical techniques for 10th Grade students. The word list includes specific strategies like metaphor, personification, and appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos—plus tactical devices like call to action and rhetorical questions. Use these cards for vocabulary review during a unit on persuasive writing or rhetoric, or adapt them for close-reading practice and literary analysis activities.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Writing
Grade Level:
10th Grade
Updated November 2025

Word List

  • Accusatory language
  • High modality or forceful language
  • metaphor
  • parallelism
  • alliteration
  • Appeal to logos via a logically constructed series of statements
  • Appeal to logos via the use of facts and/or statistics
  • Appeal to Kairos via imagining what will happen in a set period of time
  • rhetorical questions
  • Connotative adjectives
  • Synecdoche - a part representing a whole
  • Appeal to pathos - aiming to make the target audience feel ashamed
  • personification
  • Call to action
  • Appeal to ethos by referring to personal stories or background
  • Use of irony
  • Appeal to pathos by using threatening or warning tones and language
  • Appeal to logos by pointing out inaccurate statements or beliefs
  • Appeal to pathos by directly stating personally felt emotions
  • Appeal to logos - pointing out the strangeness of a situation or moment
  • Appeal to kairos - establishing how long something has been going on for
  • Allusions to another genre to make a point
  • Repetition
  • Appeal to pathos - statement of consequences if no action is taken

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