Need Help Persuasive Techniques For English Essay Due Tomorrow

[eatmorchikin]

My english teacher assigned us an assignment for our class. It was to write a persuasive essay on what ever topic. We had to write it in a persuasive way to convince the audience to agree with the writer. I did Underage Drinking. We had to put 6 persuasive techniques in the essay.

So I need help, I need all these things for Underage Drinking in the essay:
Figure of Speech
Allusion
Analogy
Parallelism

I have two rite now
Rhetorical Question-Should you drink and drive?
Anecdote- About the event in Michigan about underage drinkers going into Michigan

So can anyone just help me please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be checking it at about 7:00 A.M. tomorow so post lots before than please help me out thanks!

[rocksea]

it seems like u registered in these forums to do ur homework!

[mono]

Hello, eatmorchikin. I know not what to recommend for your essay, but for a persuasive paper, and on such a topic as underage drinking, I suggest persuading your audience through an emotional response; this type of approach usually acts as the most convincing. From the beginning, statistics and even personal stories and consequences of underage drinking (or merely drinking in general) may help; your need for the literary use of 'analogy' may work with a personal story. The use of 'allusion' requires a footnote-like reference to some source, reassuring your audience of a background knowledge on the subject, and filling them in on that specific knowledge. Parallelism speaks for itself - present both points of view and why you feel your opinion proves superior and just. Good luck!

[amuse]

i need help with these words please:

Figure of Speech
Allusion
Analogy
Parallelism

and then maybe i could take a look at your topic needs and string something together.


...it's just poss. that if you contemplate on the textbook definition of these words, and then substitute your topic to define them, you will have your answer.

good luck. you have a great topic. hopefully you will be nearly done by the time you check in and review our tips at 7 a.m. tomorrow, whatever time zone you are in.

[Basil]

Figure of Speech
Allusion
Analogy
Parallelism

Sorry, these techniques are all rather pedestrian. Might I suggest an occulative paralipsis, or perhaps even an aposiopesis to heighten the dramatic tension within the essay? If you insist on using parallelism, you should at least use an anaphora for its lyrical effect.

[amuse]

Basil!!! they're what the prof. requested.
maybe for the assignment due wednesday.

hey eatmorchikin, can i suggest giving us your own ideas to comment on next time - you'll get more constructive feedback. i promise.

[subterranean]

wouldn't it be easier to study with your friends...?

I will be checking it at about 7:00 A.M. tomorow so post lots before than

....nice to know you too

[trismegistus]

You need help in writing your essay. Hmmm. Isn't that exactly what your teacher is for?

[rocksea]

ting ting! 7 am over!!
he must've ate his chicken n went off,,

[BSturdy]

Yeah, hopefully his friends are only interested in sport (or drinking), he has an overworked teacher and his parents aren't interested. At least he'll probably always really hate literature now.

Is that use of sarcasm or irony?

[Scheherazade]

Or stating a fact?

[rocksea]

for keeping on asnwering to unnecessary threads
but but.. there cud be unseen reasons. so better leave it

[BSturdy]

----self-censored----

Perhaps I should have been a bit less confrontational and kept it to WELL DONE MONO what state would the world be like without types like you?

Oh dear, I did get very carried away there and then posted twice...sorry

I was not referring to anyone specifically but just the let's be clever (sarcastic/stupid) and make fun of someone to make ourselves feel better that made me feel a bit sick

Getting all nasty about it doesn't really help my case though...sorry again, seriously

[Scheherazade]

*blinks and wonders*

[Basil]

Yeah, hopefully his friends are only interested in sport (or drinking), he has an overworked teacher and his parents aren't interested. At least he'll probably always really hate literature now.

As long as we're imagining things, surely we can come up with a more gruesome scenario for our intrepid little hero. Here's one:

PART 1:
Little Pepe is an only child. He loves his parents very much; tragically, they perish in a freak blimp accident. He is sent to an orphanage, where the cruel parson who runs the place cruelly forces Little Pepe to go beg for alms with the lepers; consequently, he contracts leprosy, and both his arms fall off. His only solace is the Internet; tragically, the internet connection is dial-up. His screen name "eatmorchikin" reflects the one longing Little Pepe has in life; tragically, he has never been allowed to taste chicken. He gleaned his desire for chicken from his favorite book, which is nothing more than a book of coupons for a Kentucky Fried Chicken; tragically, the coupons have all expired.

PART 2:
The cruel parson cruelly levies a most unfair assignment on poor Little Pepe: he is to write a persuasive essay using six persuasive techniques. The cruel parson taunts him further by allowing Pepe to pick the subject. The parson gives him this assignment at 10:30 on a Sunday evening--it is to be turned in at 7:30 the following morning. Bravely, Pepe begins the essay, but he knows he is outmatched. Frantically, he decides to appeal to his fellow Internet users, whom he knows to be wise and caring folk. Typing with his nose, he issues a plaintive plea for assistance on a literature forum, stressing that their aid must come no later than 7:00 AM. Knowing that his fellow lovers of literature will not let him down, Little Pepe goes to sleep easily, feeling (for the first time in his life) the spirit of community and brotherhood that links all living things . . .

PART 3:
The next morning, Little Pepe stares at the screen in horror. There, he finds no helpful hints or friendly pointers, but instead vicious taunts and cruel mockery. "What did I do to deserve this?" he whispers to himself, as tears roll down each cheek. He knows that only the brightest, most learned people on the Web hang out at literature forums, so he knows that they could have helped him--cruelly, they chose not to. He picks himself up, and heads to his uncertain fate--certain only in the fact that, whatever it is, it will most certainly be cruel.

EPILOGUE:
As Little Pepe heads for the door, something on the table catches his eye: it is a copy of A Farewell to Arms. He has been meaning to read it for quite some time. With the betrayal of the literature forum folks still fresh in his mind, he cries out, "Stupid literature!" He seizes the book and hurls it into the fireplace where the morning fire still blazes. At least, that is what he pictures himself doing: tragically, he has no arms with which to seize or hurl. Sobbing, he runs out the door.

Now, that's pathos!