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