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Persuasive Writing
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Subject
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writing-skills
Instructions:
Answer 16 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not supported by positive knowledge or proof.
Bandwagon
Persuasive Writing
Persuation
Opinion
2. Solution to a problem.
Testimonial
Stereotype
Call to Action
Attention grabber
3. Something known to be true or to have actually happened.
Bandwagon
Attention grabber
Motive
Fact
4. You are urged to jump on this.
Emotional appeal
Bandwagon
Persuasive Writing
Call to Action
5. Uses words that appeal to your emotion.
Stereotype
Persuasive Writing
Emotional appeal
Call to Action
6. People who seem to be like you.
Plain folks
False cause and effect
Propaganda
Motive
7. To use writing to cause someone to do or believe something.
Persuation
Testimonial
Stereotype
Reason
8. A statement given to explain a belief or act.
Stereotype
Testimonial
Reason
Motive
9. Statement surprising the audience.
Stereotype
False cause and effect
Emotional appeal
Attention grabber
10. Well known people sometimes give an endorsement.
Plain folks
Testimonial
Attention grabber
Persuation
11. Ways to make an opinion seem appealing.
False cause and effect
Testimonial
Propaganda
Bias
12. A conventional or oversimplified idea or image.
Persuation
Stereotype
False cause and effect
Attention grabber
13. Used to suggest that because that because one event happen first it caused a second event to occur.
Bias
False cause and effect
Persuasive Writing
Opinion
14. A reason for doing something.
Motive
Propaganda
Opinion
Bias
15. A preference for or hostile feeling against a person or thing that interferes with impartial judgment.
Testimonial
Fact
Attention grabber
Bias
16. Using writing to cause someone to do or believe something by arguing - pleading - or reasoning.
Opinion
Persuasive Writing
Bias
Emotional appeal