Persuasive Techniques. Persuasive language techniques are used by authors to convince readers of their point of view, and to sway them to their point of view. Authors vary their persuasive techniques based upon audience, writing genre, and their own motives.
He was arrested and sent to jail because he was protesting, the treatment of blacks in Alabama. The charges were dropped for sit-in arrest but is held for violating probation for earlier traffic offense and transferred to Reidsville State Prison.