Argumentative Vocabulary Practice

the author’s purpose in an argumentative text

• claim

• entertain

• persuade

This root word means to see

• mis

• vis

• dis

This root word means not

• un

• pre

• re

 a position on a topic or issue developed through logic, evidence, and appeals

• claim

• first person

• argument

a text in which the writer develops and defends a position or debates a topic using logic and persuasion

• persuade

• informational text

• argumentative text

• applied text

argumentative text is always written in what point of view

• second person

• third person

• first person

• in my person

the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium

• claim

• point of view

• the reader

• the audience

an assertion or position on a topic or issue

• persuade

• claim

• point of view

• topic

specific details or facts that support an inference or idea

• evidence

• claim

• persuade

• baseball

a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• alliteration

• audience

• poem

• anecdote