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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.
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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. People who seem to be like you.






2. A conventional or oversimplified idea or image.






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






4. Uses words that appeal to your emotion.






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






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






7. Solution to a problem.






8. You are urged to jump on this.






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






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






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






12. Well known people sometimes give an endorsement.






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






14. A reason for doing something.






15. Statement surprising the audience.






16. Ways to make an opinion seem appealing.