The power of _______ is used to convince you to do or believe something.
What is persuasion?
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A credible national survey found that 75 percent of households believe that CleanUp can handle tough stains better than the other leading brands.
What is a statistic?
What does metabolism mean?
What is allowing growth and survive?
Kennedy says that America should
What is taking the lead in space exploration?
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The school budget will ____ money to the 7th-grade trip.
What is allot?
A writer's position on a problem or an issue is also known as?
What is a claim?
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Are you tired of tough stains that refuse to go away? "I've raised seven rowdy boys, and CleanUp is the only detergent that I trusted to take out those tough stains," Ava Robins says.
What is a quotation?
impetus
What is a driving force?
What objection does Kennedy try to refute with his three examples?
What is space research competes for resources that are needed here on earth?
Batman uses his handy _____ to scale the building.
What is a grapple
This is specific information that is used to back up a reason
What is evidence?
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Tia Hale was strolling outside in her white linen dress. A car roared by, spraying mud all over her. CleanUp got the stains out. Since this incident, she will only use CleanUp.
What is an anecdote?
This may be boring
What is tedious?
words first, second, and third are used to
What are organizing ideas?
Wouldn't it be nice to _____ away a long summer afternoon on a beach
What is tether?
counterargument
What is acknowledges an opposing viewpoint and then "counters" that viewpoint with further reasons or evidence.
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Frank O'Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try and too difficult to permit their voyage to continue, they took off their hats and tossed them over the wall—and then they had no choice but to follow them.
What is an anecdote?
impairment
What is an injury or weakness?
What is safeguarding earth environment?
What is find ways to lessen the toxicity of those gases can teach scientists how to deal with pollution?
Health inspectors often visit restaurants to see if they ____ with health codes
What is comply?
This uses sound reasoning and facts to convince readers.
What is a logical appeal?
Which sentence is a commonplace assertion?
(1) It's a good idea to develop that deserted strip of shoreline as a dog beach. (2) About 60 families in the area own dogs. (3) Dogs need to roam the great outdoors.
What is sentence 3?