Hooks for Beginners

The part of the introduction that catches the reader's attention is called the...?

• Hook
• Background Information
• Thesis Statement
• Claim 

There are three distinct parts of an introduction paragraph. What order should those three parts be in...? 

• Hook, Thesis Statement, Preview of Three Points 
• Hook, Thesis Statement, Claim
• Hook, Background Information, Thesis Statement 
• Background Information, Thesis Statement, Claim

One type of hook you can use for writing is called an anecdote. What is the definition of anecdote?  

• A short explanation of the topic
• A short story or scene using descriptive language (imagine)
• A striking fact or statistic
• A question that has a yes or no answer. 

All of the following are types of "hooks" except...? 

• Quote
• Rhetorical Question 
• Background Information
• Anecdote    

Which type of hook is this? 
John Wooden once said, "Never mistake activity for achievement." 

• Rhetorical Question  
• Anecdote 
• Quote 
• Startling Fact

If you use the "rhetorical question" as your hook, you should use an open ended question, NOT a question that would have a yes or no answer. 

• True
• False

Which type of hook is this? 
“As my cousin and I pedaled our new bikes to the beach, 6 years old, suntanned and young, we met an old, shaggy-haired man weaving unsteadily on a battered old bike.”

• Rhetorical Question
• Quote
• Interesting Fact/Statistic
• Anecdote

Which type of hook is this? 
“What would you do if you could play God for a day? That’s exactly what the leaders of the tiny island nation of Guam tried to answer.”

• Quote
• Rhetorical Question
• Fact
• Statistic

Which type of hook is this? 
“Spain, though hardly a literary powerhouse, translates more books in one year than the entire world has in the past one thousand years.”

• Anecdote  
• Fact
• Rhetorical Question
• Statistic

Which type of hook is this? 
Approximately 17% (or 12.7 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese.

• Statistic
• Fact
• Example
• Quote