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