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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. Well known people sometimes give an endorsement.






2. Statement surprising the audience.






3. A conventional or oversimplified idea or image.






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






5. Uses words that appeal to your emotion.






6. A reason for doing something.






7. Ways to make an opinion seem appealing.






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






9. People who seem to be like you.






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






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






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






13. You are urged to jump on this.






14. Solution to a problem.






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






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