1. Act Now, While Supplies Last!: Advertising Techniques Argument & Rhetoric, Spring 2014 Senior English

2. Stacking list of reasons why the product or service is good

3. Repetition makes product or service familiar to consumer

4. Slogan identifies product or service with an idea

5. Logo identifies product or service with a symbol

6. Snob Appeal associates product or service with a personality or lifestyle

7. Cause and Effect use this product or service and your problems will disappear

8. Emotional Appeal uses emotion to sell a product or service (pity, fear, patriotism, happiness, etc.)

9. Price Appeal consumers will be getting something extra for less money

10. Testimonial someone endorses the product

11. Sex Appeal the product will enhance you sexual attractiveness.

12. Bandwagon uses peer pressure to influence the consumer. If everyone else is doing it so should you.

13. Confusion gains the consumers attention by confusing them, and then retains the attention as the consumer tries to figure out the message.

14. Technical Jargon uses technical words to impress the consumer

15. Transfer associates the product with words or ideas that may or may not be related to the product. The association seeks to transfer certain qualities to the product.

16. Name Calling the advertiser compares its product or service to the competition in a way that is favorable to the advertiser.

17. Plain Folks the advertiser tries to identify its product with common people just like you.

18. Glittering Generality the viewer is given a general feeling about the product, but not much else.

19. Works Cited “Ad Techniques.” Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School. Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational School District, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

20. Guess The Advertising Technique! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKppxptbJLA&index=4&list=PL367A24459B026167

21. Guess The Advertising Technique! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky45CrITPFc

22. Guess The Advertising Technique! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg_zxsxyKyM

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24. Guess The Advertising Technique! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v76f6KPSJ2w

25. So which techniques would work best for your task? Your group will create a 30-40 second video advertisement that will be used to sell the yearbook. Consider your audience and purpose for the following task: Which technique(s) would be the most effective for your advertising campaign? Create a thinking map that describes the most effective techniques you might use for your advertisement. In the frame, take notes on your audience and purpose.

26. Performance Task You and your group members have just formed your own advertising firm. You received a call from your first potential client this morning. Your client, the Western High School Yearbook Class, has asked you to help them advertise their product, the 2015 Western High School yearbook. Your potential client gave you a deadline of Tuesday, April 21 st.

27. Performance Task (continued) Before you start planning your advertisement, view some ads on You Tube. While you are viewing the ads, consider the following: Does the ad effectively use the techniques we discussed? Who is the target audience of the advertisement? Considering this target audience, how does the ad appeal to this group? How does the setting, characters, music, and the general “feel” of the ad create an overall tone that might effectively communicate an idea to the target audience.

28. Performance Task (continued) Choose one advertisement that you viewed as a model for your ad. Consider how you might model your ad on this model. You aren’t replicating this ad; rather, you are attempting to replicate the successful choices with techniques and the “feel” of of the ad. Your Task: Create a 30-40 second advertisement for the 2015 Yearbook.

29. Performance Task (continued) Before you write your script, make a list of questions you might have about your product and target audience. Once you create your ad, you will present it to your client (the Yearbook class), and they will select the firm(s) they would like to use for their advertising campaign.