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Features
| Feature | Example | Why they are used? |
|---|---|---|
| Rhetorical Question | Why wouldn't you? | This is a question that does not require an answer. It is used to make the reader think |
| Alliteration | Terrified, Tingly, and Tense | This is used to describe something and make a visual image in the readers head for the reader to understand more. |
| Quoting expert | Dr. Blood of the blood donation family says " | These are the opinions & facts of experts in a field of subject the reader is reading about. They are used to make readers trust the source of information |
| Facts | Without water, We will die | This is used to convey real information to the users based on knowledge and reasearch |
| Statistics | 1 in 1000 people die from blood donation | This is used to make the reader feel that the information is true and well researched. |
| Repetition | save, save, save | This makes the writer convey the information as serious and back up the writers argument |
| Image | Image of a crying baby | This gives visual representation of the writers argument to help readers |
| Power of 3 | Angry, upset and disappointed | This is used to reinforce the information the writer wants to convey |
| Imperative | Must, Now | This is used to tell the reader a command and make the reader driven in to the writers piece. |
| Pronouns | You, We | This is used to make the readers feel like they are involved in the written piece and the writer is speaking at them. |
| Ellipsis | ... | This is used to make the reader feel that something is missing from the information and creates a pause |
| Catchy Title | Traversing the skies | This is used to draw the readers into reading the article/story without giving too much information away |
| Emotive language | How would you feel if that was your son who needed blood. | This is used to pull the string on the readers heart. it captivates them to the article |
| Reward | if you donate blood, you are rewarded with tea and biscuits | This is used to motivate readers to do what the article has been about. when there is a reward, people will do a lot of things |
| Bullet points | .people die everyday .earthquakes happen all the time | This is used to convey concise information usually factual for the readers to easily extract that information instead of reading a whole paragraph |
| BOLD Headings | CAPITILISM (BOLD) | This is used to emphasize the headings from the information. |
| Onomatopoeia | BANG!, BOOM!, CRASH!. | This is used to make a dramatic sound effect to give users a representation of what it sounds like |
| Personification | The tree looked happy with the branches dancing | This is used to give an object a human characteristics. it is used to give readers a representation of movement. |
| Hyperbole | For the a millionth time "" | This is used for exaggerating part of the article/story and make it seem more serious that it is |
| Oxymoron | Clearly confused Deafening silence | This is used for a figure of speech with a contradictory word with opposing meaning to give readers something to think of |
| Idiom | Money doesn't grow on trees | This is used for an figurative meaning that differs from the phrases actual meaning that it amplifies the manning to readers to draw them in |
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