Examples of Emotive Language
Emotive language is designed to tell you the facts while influencing you to adopt the author's opinion. Here are examples of emotive language.
Non-emotive version: Another person in the bar was injured by the man's glass.
Emotive version: An innocent bystander suffered facial injuries when the thug launched his glass across the bar.
Non-emotive version: The government will reduce interest rates.
Emotive version: The government will slash interest rates.
Non-emotive version: Mr Smith was attacked by Mr Jones for two minutes.
Emotive version: For what seemed a lifetime, Mr Smith was subjected to a vicious, cowardly assault by the unemployed, steroid-pumped monster.
When writing emotive language, you get to be newsreader and judge at the same time.