Persuasive Writing Quiz

Which of the below is an example of a rhetorical question?

• Can you watch this poor child suffer?

• Cats often meow.

• What is the time now?

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Studies show that sadly not many people recycle.

Which word in the passage is an example of emotive language?

• Not many

• Recycle

• Sadly

• happily

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The first sentence in persuasive writing introduces the subject.

This is called a......

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An authors purpose is easy as Pie!

Pie includes which of the below?

• Inform

• Persuade

• Engage

• Entertain

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A Garfield comic from the newspaper in which Garfield hates Mondays and likes lasagne.

Identify the main purpose of the author

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

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What are the main points the author is making?

• That pizza can me made healthily at school.

• That there would be less food being wasted if pizza were to become an option.

• That parents want pizza on the school menu.

• That the lunch program could make more money.

• The majority of kids like pizza.

"95% of milks on the market are given a 3 star health star rating."

This is an example of use of

Inclusive Language is used to make all readers feel like they are being spoken to by a persuasive text.

Which of these are an example of inclusive language?

• They, them, those people

• Ours, us, we

• I, me, personally

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Formal language is a persuasive devise that makes a text appear more...

• Smarter

• Unprofessional

• Trust worthy, correct and credible

• Wrong

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"Our organization is working to ban shark hunting, however people that agree with shark hunting are cruel and foolish."

What is the author's purpose of the above sentence?

• To make themselves appear correct

• To seem smart

• To provide facts

• To paint the opposition in a negative light

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