What is the most powerful advantage of using literature as a persuasive tool? Literature is usually more subtle in its attempts to persuade, so readers may not realize they’re being persuaded. The art of convincing someone to believe or act in a certain way.

Ethos, Logos, and Pathos: Tools of Persuasion

• Aristotle coined the terms ethos, logos, and pathos as the three main tools of persuasion.
• These are used in theatre, in literature, and beyond.
• Ethos is the ethical appeal, and it means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character by showing a good sense of ethics.

PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES

• Adjective. Describing words, often used to make the reader feel a particular way about an issue.
• Alliteration. The repetition of words starting with the same to create emphasis.
• Anecdotes.
• Cliches.
• Emotive words.
• Evidence.
• Inclusive language.
• Pun.

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• Persuasive Essay Structure. When you’re trying to convince your audience of an idea or argument.
• Introduction. •
• Each Body Paragraph. • Only one point to support your thesis per paragraph.
• Conclusion. • Tie up the essay – briefly sum up the main point.
• THESIS (Main Idea/ argument) Topic + Evidence.

What is the main difference between persuasive literature and persuasive informational writing? Informational writing persuades with appeals to emotion, while literature persuades through theme. Informational writing persuades with logical fallacies, while literature uses imagination.

Persuasive writing – your goal is to persuade the reader to agree with your opinion.

1. Often a combination of facts (informative) and personal point of view (persuasive)
2. Focus on benefits of your point of view.
3. Use strong, comparable facts for both sides; never stretch facts to strengthen your argument.

Persuasive articles, also known as argument essays, use logic in proving that one idea is more legitimate than the other. They convince readers to adopt a particular viewpoint or take a certain action. Therefore, a persuasive essay may be defined as an essay which “offers, promotes and supports an opinion”.

An informative speech aims to inform the audience about a specific topic. A persuasive speech aims to persuade the audience to perform a certain action or convince the audience to adopt the belief or opinion of the speaker. Many speeches will combine features of informative and persuasive speeches.

The main types of informative speeches include definition, descriptive, explanatory, and demonstrative. A definition speech explains the meaning, theory, or philosophy of a specific topic that the audience likely does not know much about.

Top 10 informative speech topics for 2019 on Health

• Technology and healthcare.
• Impact of food consumption on health.
• Psychological disorders: causes and impact.
• Treatment of chronic ailments.
• Importance of a balanced diet.
• Taking depression seriously.
• Advantages and disadvantages of home remedies.
• Importance of sleep.

Examples of Informative Speeches in Literature or Popular Culture: Excerpt from Marie Curie’s speech on the discovery of radium: I could tell you many things about radium and radioactivity and it would take a long time. But as we can not do that, I shall only give you a short account of my early work about radium.

There are five principles you need to consider in order to reach this goal: creativity, credibility, intellectual stimulation, relevance and emphasis.