Year 7 English Persuasive Devices Quiz

A commercial about abandoned animals needing a shelter of a forever home. They ask for a small donation to help these struggling animals. 

• Celebrity Endorsement
• Emotional Appeal
• Testimonial
• Bandwagon

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

What persuasive technique is this?

Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.

• Rhetorical questions

• Appeal to Emotion

• Appeal to reason

• Repetition

What technique is this an example of? (two possible answers)

• Rhetorical question

• Direct address

• alliteration

• exaggeration

Statistics are...

• Numbers or percentages.

• When the reader is spoken to using "you".

• When something makes you feel strong emotions.

• When three adjectives are used.

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

True or False: Persuasive focuses on opinion, not fact. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Which persuasive strategy uses numbers and facts?

• Pathos
• Ethos
• Claim
• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which persuasive strategy encourages you to feel a specific emotion?

• Pathos
• Logos
• Research
• Kairos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which persuasive strategy wants you to believe and trust in them?

• Research
• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What technique is this advert an example of?

• Direct address

• Emotive language

• facts and statistics

• alliteration

What technique is this advert an example of? (two possible answers)

• alliteration

• rhetorical question

• rule of three

• listing