Vocabulary and Persuasive Techniques Quiz

What does the word 'accessible' mean?

• To imagine or plan a future possibility

• An official policy that keeps people separated

• Eager and determined to succeed

• Able to be obtained; able to be used or reached

Which word describes someone who is eager and determined to succeed?

• Accessible

• Ambitious

• Envision

• Apartheid

What is 'apartheid'?

• A device that writers use to make their arguments appeal to readers

• An official policy that keeps white and nonwhite people separated

• A statement that you have a right to something

• A persuasive technique that appeals to logic

What does the verb 'envision' mean?

• To present a claim on a debatable issue

• To establish credibility and shared values

• To give up something for something more important

• To imagine or plan a future possibility

What does the verb 'sacrifice' mean?

• To establish credibility and shared values

• To give up something for something more important

• To present a claim on a debatable issue

• To imagine or plan a future possibility

What is 'ethos' in persuasive writing?

• Facts, statistics, numerical data, quotations, specific examples, and expert opinions that support a claim

• A persuasive technique that aims to establish a writer’s or speaker’s credibility and shared values with the audience

• A persuasive technique that attempts to stir up emotions

• A persuasive technique that appeals to logic and reasoning

What is 'logos' in persuasive writing?

• A persuasive technique that aims to establish a writer’s or speaker’s credibility and shared values with the audience

• Facts, statistics, numerical data, quotations, specific examples, and expert opinions that support a claim

• A persuasive technique that attempts to stir up emotions

• A persuasive technique that appeals to logic and reasoning

What is 'pathos' in persuasive writing?

• Facts, statistics, numerical data, quotations, specific examples, and expert opinions that support a claim

• A persuasive technique that aims to establish a writer’s or speaker’s credibility and shared values with the audience

• A persuasive technique that attempts to stir up emotions

• A persuasive technique that appeals to logic and reasoning

• a statement that you have a right to something; a statement that something belongs to you

• counter argument

• Argumentative texts

• claim

• ethos

writing that presents a claim on a debatable issue or problem and attempts to persuade others to agree with this claim

• reason

• rhetorical appeal

• text structure

• Argumentative texts