You are going to work through the scripts for each trailer, highlighting key words and annotating them. This means labelling them. By the end of this activity, you will have a firm idea of the types of language used in persuasive trailer texts. The script for the first trailer has been done for you.
Download the Transcript for Descpicable Me 3 (Trailer 1), and highlight and annotate examples of the following:
- Modal verbs - to indicate degrees of possibility [auxiliary verbs], like can; could; may; might; will; would; must; shall; should; ought to
- Exaggerated language
- Hyperbole - over the top words
- Present tense
- Casual connectives
- Word play - or humour
- Rhetorical questions - questions that don’t require an answer
- Onomatopeia - words that sound like the thing they are describing, like ‘bang!’
- Make persuasion more powerful
Try again with the second trailer. Download the script of the second Despicable Me 3 trailer and annotate. This time persuasive language tool names are given but can you decide where to use them?
