The piece of persuasive writing that I will be analysing is a letter from the Post Office. The letter is for people looking to obtain money through a loan.

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The piece of persuasive writing that I will be analysing is a letter from the Post Office. The letter is for people looking to obtain money through a loan.

In this text there are a lot of rhetorical questions which are their for a specific reason which is to persuade the reader to take out a Post Office loan.

"Why wait for the things you want."

"Why just think about it?"

Above are examples of rhetorical questions in this text. These rhetorical questions both have something in common in that the main focus of these rhetorical questions are the verbs "wait" and "think". Both these verbs have a time element to them in that they are saying to the readers that they should take a loan out now and no to take time in deciding whether to take out the loan.

"Perhaps you have been promising yourself a well-earned holiday abroad?"

"Maybe you are considering buying a new car?"

The main focus of these rhetorical questions are the nouns and the pre-modifiers. The nouns are "holiday" and "car". The pre-modifiers are "well earned" and