Author's Purpose, Fables, We Real Cool

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Persuade

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(b) Inform

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(c) Entertain

• Emotional Experience

• Change opinion

• Argue

• Teach

• Explain

• Give new data

• Influence

• Life like description

• Often uses narrative

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Appeals to Logic

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(b) Appeals to Emotion

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(c) Appeals to Character or Trust

• I'm a doctor, so I know...

• This will help you feel safe.

• The data shows that...

• I'm achieved fame and success.

• If you don't do this, something bad will happen!

• This just makes sense...

• This idea leads to the conclusion that...

• I've been working this job for 30 years

• You're a bad person if you don't...

Match the fable with the moral

• The Heron

• The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.

• The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

• We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.

• The Stag & His Reflection

• Do not be too hard to suit or you may have to be content with the worst or with nothing at all.

• The Oak and the Reeds

• Better to yield when it is folly to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.

• The Wild Boar & the Fox

• Preparedness for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Match the following text with the author's purpose

• Newspaper article

• Persuade

• The House of the Scorpion

• Entertain

• Facebook post venting about gas prices

• Inform

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Soapstone Element

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(b) Not Soapstone Element

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(c) What to wear on Friday

• Flannel

• Nitrogen

• Apple pie

• Carbon

• Text

• Audience

• Entertain

• Occasion

• Analyze

• Purpose

• Not "nerd shirts"

• Subject

• Speaker

• Tone

Organize these themes into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Themes in "We Real Cool"

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(b) Themes not in "We Real Cool"

• Family relationships can be difficult but are worth it

• The foolishness of youth

• Friendship requires trust

• Teenage Rebellion

If you see elements of a story like characters, conflict, and setting, there is a good chance the author's purpose has something to do with:

• Persuade

• Entertain

• Inform

• PIE

What persuasive appeal is being used in this ad?

• Appeal to character or trust

• Appeal to Emotion

• Appeal to logic

What persuasive appeal is being used in this ad?

• Appeal to character or trust

• Appeal to emotion

• Appeal to logic

What persuasive appeal is being used in this ad?

• Appeal to character or trust

• Appeal to emotions

• Appeal to Logic