incentive vs prompting

incentive

noun
  • Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. 

  • A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder. 

adj
  • Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating. 

  • Serving to kindle or set on fire. 

prompting

noun
  • The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something. 

How often have the words incentive and prompting occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )