Persuasive text
Persuasive Appeal
Opinion
True or False
Random
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What is a persuasive text?
A form of non-fiction writing that aims to convince the reader
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The three types of persuasive appeals are emotional, logical, and personal? Yes or No
Yes
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What is an opinion?
An opinion is what you think, how you feel, or what you believe about the world.
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A persuasive text is used to entertain the reader.
False, a persuasive text is used to CONVINCE the reader.
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Give an example of an opinion
I love school
I wish vacations were longer.
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Mention one type of persuasive text
Advertisements (Ads)
Speeches
Persuasive Essays
Newspaper Articles
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Is credibility part of the personal appeal?
Yes, personal appeal uses credibility to convince the reader.
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"Smoking is bad"-Is that an opinion? Yes or No.
Yes.
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An opinion is enough to convince the reader.
False. We need to have reasons and use persuasive appeals in order to convince.
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Mention a concept that you learned last year related to the persuasive text.
Persuasive text, Opinion, Persuasive Appeals, Persuasive Essays, Reasons, Emotional Appeal, Logical Appeal, Personal Appeal, Claim, Fact, Text Features, Content Area Words
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Are Reasons one of the main characteristics of persuasive writing? Yes or No
Yes
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What is the emotional appeal?
Emotional appeal is a way of convincing the audience by using emotions.
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To persuade someone, you need to be clear on what is your opinion about the topic. True or False?
True. If you have an unclear opinion will not persuade someone.
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An example of a persuasive text is a poem.
False, poems are used to entertain not to convince the reader.
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What type of persuasive text is this? 
An advertisement. (Ads)
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Mention three types of persuasive text
Persuasive Essay
Advertisement (Ads)
Speeches
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“If you do not turn in your homework, your grades will go down.” Is that an example of logical appeal?
Yes, it uses logical reasoning.
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To support your opinion you need to have reasons.
Do you agree? Yes or No. Why?
Yes, to support your opinion you need to have reasons. An opinion alone will not be able to convince.
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Personal appeal is used to convince the reader through emotions.
False. EMOTIONAL appeal uses emotions to convince the reader.
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Give an example fo a fact.
There are 78, 5th grade students at Blanco Elementary.
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What kind of persuasive text is this?
(Introduction taken from Mofongo on Friday text)
Who doesn’t love mofongo? The amazing thing is that it is a traditional Puerto Rican dish made from fried plantains. Abuela makes the best mofongo in the world. Sadly, she only does it on Navidad or other special holidays. With this in mind, should abuela do mofongo every Friday? I believe she should be required to do it every Friday.
A persuasive essay.
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What does a logical appeal use to convince?
The logical uses statistics, surveys, scientific evidence to convince the reader.
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Is this an opinion? Why or Why not?
Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island that has a tropical climate. The capital of Puerto Rico is San Juan.
It is not an opinion. The text presented is facts about Puerto Rico.
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To persuade, you can use the 5 persuasive appeals.
False, there are only 3 types of persuasive appeals.
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What is the Author's Purpose in Persuasive Text?
To Persuade the reader to to agree with their claim or opinion.