Persuasive Writing
To cause someone to do something with reasoning or argument.
What is persuasion?
This is the opposite of poetry.
What is prose?
A false clue.
What is a red herring?
Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor for example.
What are greenhouse gases?
An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
What is an artifact?
This type of argument establishes personal credentials gets your audience to trust you.
What is ethos?
"My family is a quilt" is an example of this poetic device.
What is a metaphor?
A person who commits a crime.
Who is the perpetrator?
Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
What is climate change?
This person was both a leader and a god.
Who was the pharoah?
This type of argument appeals to the audience's emotions.
What is pathos?
What is alliteration?
A person who saw the crime being committed and can provide information to help solve the case.
Who is a witness?
When the many impacts of climate change—from rising sea levels to food shortages to extended drought— cause people to move from region.
What is climate migration?
What is a tomb?
This typic of argument is based on facts and reasoning.
What is logos?
What are stanzas?
An excuse that the suspect gives to show that they were somewhere else during the crime.
What is an alibi?
Any naturally occurring and inexhaustible source of energy such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, that is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel.
Renewable Energy
The argument that ancient relics should be returned to the place from which they came.
What is the artifact controversy?
This is an attack on the person instead of their argument.
What is ad hominem?
A poetic device to help the reader picture what's happening.
What is imagery?
A thing that is used to help show or prove who committed the crime.
What is evidence?
The buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by higher-income people, raising property values but displacing lower-income people.
Gentrification
He discovered the tomb of King Tut.
Who was Howard Carter?