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Persuasive Writing

Subject : 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. Solution to a problem.






2. Using writing to cause someone to do or believe something by arguing - pleading - or reasoning.






3. Statement surprising the audience.






4. A statement given to explain a belief or act.






5. A conventional or oversimplified idea or image.






6. A reason for doing something.






7. Well known people sometimes give an endorsement.






8. People who seem to be like you.






9. Uses words that appeal to your emotion.






10. You are urged to jump on this.






11. Used to suggest that because that because one event happen first it caused a second event to occur.






12. A preference for or hostile feeling against a person or thing that interferes with impartial judgment.






13. Ways to make an opinion seem appealing.






14. Something known to be true or to have actually happened.






15. To use writing to cause someone to do or believe something.






16. A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not supported by positive knowledge or proof.