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    The document discusses how writers use language with positive or negative connotations to influence readers' thoughts and feelings. It provides an example of emotive language, describing thugs brutally bashing an innocent man, and explains how the words "thugs", "brutally bashed", and "innocent" have negative, negative, and positive connotations respectively. The document then gives tasks analyzing positive, neutral, and negative words.

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    The document discusses how writers use language with positive or negative connotations to influence readers' thoughts and feelings. It provides an example of emotive language, describing thugs brutally bashing an innocent man, and explains how the words "thugs", "brutally bashed", and "innocent" have negative, negative, and positive connotations respectively. The document then gives tasks analyzing positive, neutral, and negative words.

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    Persuasive Language - Positive & Negative Connotation

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    The document discusses how writers use language with positive or negative connotations to influence readers' thoughts and feelings. It provides an example of emotive language, describing thugs brutally bashing an innocent man, and explains how the words "thugs", "brutally bashed", and "innocent" have negative, negative, and positive connotations respectively. The document then gives tasks analyzing positive, neutral, and negative words.

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    PERSUASIVE LANGUAGE

    Writers often use words that have positive or negative connotations. When you see these words in a piece
    of persuasive writing they will evoke either positive or negative feelings or thoughts. Hence, writers
    influence how readers are feeling and thinking by the words they choose to present their perspective on an
    issue. Emotive language includes words that have positive or negative connotations (also called
    connotative language).
    Example: The thugs brutally bashed the innocent man.
    Negative: thugs - makes reader think of aggressive people prone to violent behaviour
    brutally bashed – makes reader think of disturbing violence /makes reader feel angry/scared
    Positive: innocent – makes reader think of a good person / makes reader feel sad for the victim
    Neutral: man – this word is neutral as it doesn’t make you think / feel positively or negatively

    TASK 1: LOOK AT THE WORDS ON THE LIST AND PLACE THEM UNDER THE CORRECT HEADING IN THE TABLE
    BELOW

    POSITIVE NEUTRAL NEGATIVE

    TASK 2: The sentence below is written in neutral language. Re-write the sentence using negative language.
    I have underlined the words you need to replace.
    The people who live in the house at the end of the street have been seen walking around at midnight.
    _______________________________________________________________________________________
    _______________________________________________________________________________________
    Question: How do the reader’s thoughts and feelings change based on your word choice?
    chaos grand tragic

    event mansion girl

    neglect caring aggressive

    loitering gentle natural

    rotten valuable destroy

    protect moral greedy

    choking species animal

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