Author's Purpose STAAR Review

Pathos appeals to...

• Feelings and emotion

• Credibility and trustworthiness

• Logic and reasoning

What is the main Author's Purpose?

• Inform

• Persuade

• Entertain

A website devoted to the conservation of wildlife would most likely be to ?

• Entertain the reader with cute polar bear pics
• Inform readers of the habitat of polar bears
• Express their feelings about polar bears
• Persuade readers to change their minds about animal rights

What is "author's purpose"?

• The main idea of the text

•  The reason an author writes about a particular topic

• Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

• The author's feelings towards the text

What is the main Author's Purpose?

• Inform

• Persuade

• Entertain

A magazine article about JJ Watt is most likely to 

• Entertain the reader with a funny interview
• Inform the reader about JJ Watt's professional career
• Persuade you to watch the Texans
• Express JJ Watt's feelings about football 

What does it mean to persuade?

• the author's goal is to engage in a debate

• the author's goal is to convince a reader to agree with the author

• the author's goal is to convince a reader that the reader is right

• the author's goal is to convince the reader to accept multiple points of view

To inform means to enlighten the reader and provide facts

• True

• False

What does the acronym PIE mean?

• persuade, inform, and empathy

• persuade, infer, and entertain

• passion, inference, and empathy

• persuade, inform, and entertain

Why is it important to consider the audience of a text?

• So we can have a deeper understanding of the text and author's purpose.

• So we can understand the mood of the author.

• So we can tell when the author is using Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.

• S we can understand stuff more better.