Techniques of Persuasion

Persuasion:
To Persuade, in my perspective is to try to convince others to think the way you want them to about a certain topic. During our English Option class, we played a game to help us understand more about advertisements, and how there are many different strategies for companies to make us want their product. These strategies include: humor, macho, friends, family, fun, nature, sexy, cartoon, celebrity and wealth. To play the game we all had partners, and an envelope that had all the different techniques in it. We would take a word out one at a time, then find an advertisement on the internet using our iPads. The advertisement we choose is the one that we think fits well with the strategy we picked out of the envelope. The team who guesses each other's advertisements first within three tries wins the game! The game we played definitely helped me identify the concepts each technique has. These ten words below are all different methods advertisements have, that interest us to get us to think more about their product.

Techniques:
Humor- Funny concepts that get viewers to get the emotion of laughter.
Macho- Concepts that show anything that is strong, tough, powerful, fit (usually male).
Friends- Groups of people laughing and enjoying each other's company.
Family- Includes your mom, dad, sister, brother, etc. Usually bonding and having good times together.
Fun- Anything about having a good time, usually includes people laughing or smiling.
Nature- Concepts that make the outdoors look beautiful, includes: trees, green grass, flowers, etc.
Sexy- Anything that either shows revealing clothing,a fit body, flirting, etc.
Cartoon- Images and drawings that sometimes are unrealistic. Most often humor is included along with the cartoon.
Celebrity- Famous people who are usually idolized by many people. Could be: actors, athletes, musicians, etc.
Wealth- Expensive and fancy things, such as: clothes, houses, cars, jewelry, etc.