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When reviewing advertisements over a twenty-four hour period, one notices that there are a variety of weasel words and different tactics such as “unfinished words” and personification used to persuade the consumer to buy a certain product. Weasel words are words that appear to make a claim for a product, but in actuality, they don’t. In this paper I will analyze newspaper advertisements and show how these tactics are used to mislead the consumer. …

…buy the product those positive feelings and visions will be transformed into them. By using weasel words and other tactics, the advertiser is able to manipulate the consumer into believing something that is not really true. These tactics also make the consumer read too deeply into certain phrases. By doing this, the advertiser is able to persuade the consumer into buying their product, although the consumer does not fully understanding what the advertisement is saying.