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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. To use writing to cause someone to do or believe something.
Bias
Persuasive Writing
Call to Action
Persuation
2. People who seem to be like you.
Motive
Fact
Bandwagon
Plain folks
3. Something known to be true or to have actually happened.
Call to Action
Opinion
Fact
Stereotype
4. Used to suggest that because that because one event happen first it caused a second event to occur.
Bias
Opinion
False cause and effect
Persuasive Writing
5. A preference for or hostile feeling against a person or thing that interferes with impartial judgment.
Reason
Testimonial
False cause and effect
Bias
6. A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not supported by positive knowledge or proof.
Fact
Opinion
Plain folks
False cause and effect
7. Using writing to cause someone to do or believe something by arguing - pleading - or reasoning.
Persuasive Writing
Fact
Motive
Reason
8. A conventional or oversimplified idea or image.
Attention grabber
Persuasive Writing
False cause and effect
Stereotype
9. A reason for doing something.
Persuasive Writing
Opinion
Motive
Fact
10. Well known people sometimes give an endorsement.
Stereotype
Testimonial
Reason
False cause and effect
11. Solution to a problem.
Plain folks
Call to Action
Fact
False cause and effect
12. You are urged to jump on this.
Persuation
False cause and effect
Plain folks
Bandwagon
13. Uses words that appeal to your emotion.
Bandwagon
Persuation
Call to Action
Emotional appeal
14. Statement surprising the audience.
Opinion
Propaganda
Bandwagon
Attention grabber
15. A statement given to explain a belief or act.
False cause and effect
Attention grabber
Reason
Propaganda
16. Ways to make an opinion seem appealing.
Bias
Propaganda
Fact
Call to Action