Persuasive Writing

1. Persuasive Writing A Toolkit

2. Example 1 • Think of the poor fox, cowering deep in the hole that will become its grave, looking up at the brutal canines blocking the daylight. EMOTIVE

3. Example 2 • A fugitive on the run, the fox is denied the luxury of a fair trial: the judge looks on whilst the executioner gets straight to work. FIGURATIVE

4. Example 3 • Some people say that fox-hunting is an important means of pest control – but there are still just as many of those upper-class idiots roaming the English countryside. HUMOROUS

5. Example 4 • There are lots and lots of foxes in the wild, and they sometimes harm chickens and other small livestock. Hunting is one method of keeping their numbers down. FACTUAL

6. Example 5 • Foxes often vomit before they die, when the dog withdraws its teeth from the fox’s windpipe, and the blood floods out as the air rushes in. The dog’s don’t care though – they know they’ll get a nice warm bath at the end of the day. SHOCKING

7. Example 6 • Fox hunting is by far the best way of keeping fox numbers down. Any suggestion that it is inhumane or cruel is simply ridiculous. They’re only foxes, after all. BIASED

8. Example 7 • I once went on holiday and stayed within earshot of the huntsman’s call. Every time I heard it, I felt cold and uneasy, a death knell ringing in my ears. ANECDOTES

9. Example 8 • Fox hunting belongs to the past, its mere existence mars the present, and it has no place in a humane future. RULE OF 3