Elements of Persuasive Writing

Which is true about persuasive writing?

• It is an opinion writing.

• It is a type of writing that convinces the audience.

• It is a type of writing that persuades others to believe your point of view.

• All answers are correct.

The following are reasons why persuasive texts are written except...

• To convince someone to believe you.

• To change someone's mind.

• To describe something.

• To move someone to act.

The following texts all use persuasive writing except...

• diaries

• reviews

• speeches

• advertisements

Which technique in persuasive writing uses pieces of information that are proven to be true as evidences to your argument?

• direct address

• emotive language

• rhetorical question

• fact

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice , sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. What technique did the speaker use here?

• repetition

• rhetorical question

• direct address

• opinion

We can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground Government of the people, by the people, for the people. What technique is present here?

• direct address

• imperative

• triples

• expert opinion

Dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place.Let every nation know. This much we pledge and more. This uses...

• imperative

• rhethorical question

• statistics

• anecdote

What technique does this advertisement use?

• direct address

• rhetorical question

• opinion

• anecdote

This ads uses....

• opinion

• fact

• statistics

• emotive language

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys...Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house...and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both. And the truth is, I loved the life we had built for our girls...I deeply loved the man I had built that life with...and I didn't want that to change if he became President. I loved Barack just the way he was. The speaker uses a technique called...

• direct address

• anecdote

• imperative

• triplets