Slum Persuasive Techniques Analysis

The author uses several persuasive techniques in his essay to craft an extremely well thought-out argument for what causes the awful environments of the slum areas. He uses several descriptive words for easier understanding of readers, and as well as strong words in order to emphasize his claims. Moreover, the author mentions three similar but different examples to strengthen his opinions.
The author begins the passage by using various descriptive words or phrases such as rough, potholed, and the highest crime rate, to introduce the topic and describe the slum area in order to provide better understanding to the readers. Moreover, he emphasizes the transition from the introduction to the next paragraph by question a social issue at the end of introduction, “But how did it get …show more content…
The author emphasizes a word “black neighborhoods” by using speech mark to make another reference about residential segregation occurring on racial thus provides evidence toward his opinion; this is the author’s first step in his persuasion.
In addition, in the fourth paragraph, the author decided to use words such as poorer, anxious and isolated, concerning the sympathies of the readers to the situations in slums and emphasizing his claim once again.
After the first example, the author mentioned different, but similar example in Chicago, as the previous one. This example shows the causes of violence in the slum area which strengthen his claim that mentioned in the first paragraph, about the highes crime rates.
The author mentions a different situation about the St. Louis Country, make a reference about the state-sponsored segregation which led to the violent protests. By mentioning three similar but different examples, the author provides various information to the readers, which can help them a easier understanding of the topic as well as his argument on