PERSUASIVE TEXTS
This appeal is logical and relies on facts, numbers, and statistics.
What is logos?
To do homework, or no to do homework...That is the question. [What is this an example of?]
A text structured in order of time.
What is chronological?
The exhausted hiker plodded up the steep mountain path.
[What is the best inference for plodded based on the way it is used?]
What is stepped heavily?
What is walked tiredly?
What is struggled to walk?
The period after the civil war is known as the antebellum epoch.
[What does the root BELL mean?]
What is war?
This appeal is based on ethics, using credible sources such as experts and research. In its worst form, using celebrity appeal.
What is ethos?
Oh Zeus, rain down lighting bolts up MAP Testing!
[What is this an example of?]
What is apostrophe?
Explain why something happened and how it ended up.
What is cause and effect?
Melancholy enveloped me when I saw that Goldie, my beloved goldfish, had passes.
[What is a synonym for melancholy?]
[What does the root duct mean?]
What is to lead?
This appeal uses emotions, pulls at one's heart strings, so to speak.
What is pathos.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." --WS
[What is this an example of?]
To end global warming, we need to use more green energy.
[How is this statement organized?]
What is cause and effect?
I seldom eat beef--perhaps once a month--to keep my cholesterol low.
[What does seldom mean?]
What is rarely / not very often/ infrequently.
contract, tractor, attract, subtract, extract...
[What does tract mean?]
what is drag or pull?
This is a statement of opinion rooted in factual reality.
What is a claim?
The entire text is metaphorical, such as Animal Farm, "Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening", and Aesop's fables.
What is an allegory?
While the two trucks both use the same size engine; however, the Toyota has a bed that is 2 feet longer.
[How is this statement organized?]
What is compare and contrast?
Scientists have discovered the COHABITATION of turtles and frogs in ponds.
[Based on the meaning of the prefix co- and the word habitation, what does cohabitation mean?]
What is living together?
incredible, credible, creed, credit, discredit...
[What does the root cred mean?]
What is believe?
This is used to support a claim.
What is textual evidence and / or a rhetorical appeal?
"I have a dream...
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream...
I have a dream today."
[What is this an example of?]
What is anaphora?
Frogs
amphibians green aquatic cute
[How is this organized?]
What is topic and description?
I have a vivid imagination; ______, I write poetry!
[What is the missing conjunctive adverb?]
What is thus / therefore?
manuscript, emancipation, manual labor, manipulate, manicure, manage...
[What does man / manu mean?]