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Explain the ways in which the two writers try to make you share their feelings and points of view.
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Persuasive Techniques Explain the ways in which the two writers try to make you share their feelings and points of view. Both writers employ a variety of persuasive techniques to convey their feelings to the reader. They argue their points of view and adopt different methods to persuade the reader to share these opinions. This is done using different rhetorical devices - emotive language, rhetorical questions, and lots of repetition, when coupled with assonance, alliteration, and evidence, make both these pieces very persuasive. Rhetorical questions are the most common way that the writer of 'Watching and watching me' influences his reader. He uses them to convey humour, doubt, sarcasm, and also guilt. 'Why are we so fascinated by the doings and ill-doings of others?' This shows how the reader uses his opinion and a rhetorical question to convince us that he is right and we are wrong. There also a list...
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