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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.
  • 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. Solution to a problem.






2. Uses words that appeal to your emotion.






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






4. Statement surprising the audience.






5. You are urged to jump on this.






6. People who seem to be like you.






7. Well known people sometimes give an endorsement.






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






9. Ways to make an opinion seem appealing.






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






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






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






13. A conventional or oversimplified idea or image.






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






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






16. A reason for doing something.