Persuasive Language

Browse our collection of persuasive language worksheets and other resources. Persuasive language aims to convince the reader of an idea or an opinion. To be persuasive, we must choose our words carefully. There are several persuasive language devices and techniques that can help, including modality, hyperbole, similes, metaphors, rhetorical questions, using facts, alliteration and involving the reader. Watch our Persuasive Language Video Series. Find more resources at Persuasive Writing (Writing).

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These persuasive language worksheets cover both the structure of persuasive writing and the language used to make it work.

The collection includes planning templates (like hamburger-style organisers), full writing tasks, and prompts built around familiar topics such as school, food, and everyday opinions. There are also model texts and stimulus sheets that give students something concrete to respond to.

A large part of the set focuses on persuasive devices. Students identify techniques in short passages, match definitions, and work with examples of emotive language, modal verbs, and evaluative language. There are also targeted resources for ethos, pathos, and logos, including sorting, analysing, and writing tasks.

You’ll also find advertisement-based worksheets, where students examine how persuasive language is used in real contexts, along with activities that ask them to apply those techniques in their own writing.