Text Types
Persuasive Tools I
Persuasive Tools 2
Figurative Language
Random
100

Advertisements that are printed in hard copy in publications (newspapers, magazines, journals) likely to be read by your target audience.

Print Ad

100

Using good looking models (who may also be celebrities) to attract our attention.

Beautiful People

100

Builds trust and credibility with the reader.

Ethos

100

What figurative language is used here:

Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, / He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; Tlot tlot, tlot tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hooves, ringing clear; / Tlot tlot, tlot tlot, in the distance! Were they deaf that they did not hear?

onomatopoeia and rhyme 

100

Name the two teams in the 1994 World Cup Final

Brazil and Italy

200

An arrangement of words written or spoken: traditionally a rhythmical composition, sometimes rhymed, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and powerful than that of ordinary speech or prose.

Poem

200

Using logic, facts, statistics, or numbers. It uses reason to persuade

Logos

200

Connecting to your emotions to persuade.

Pathos

200

What figurative language is used here:

"Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all

metaphor

200

Tehran is the capital city of what country?

Iran

300

A speech that is given with the intention of convincing the audience to believe or do something.

Persuasive speech

300

This technique tries to link a product, service, or idea with something already liked or desired by the target audience, such as fun, pleasure, beauty, security, success, wealth, etc.

Association

300

To show lots of people using the product, implying that "everyone is doing it" (or at least, "all the cool people are doing it").

Bandwagon

300

What figurative language is used here:

O Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night

In the howling storm: 

Personification

300

Name two places (other than Costa Rica) where Mr. Adam has lived.

Ohio USA, North Carolina USA, Washington, DC, Austria, England

400

Motion picture that shapes and interprets factual material for purposes of education or entertainment.

Documentary film

400

The use of so-called "virtue words" such as civilization, democracy, freedom, science, health, beauty, and love.

Glittering Generalities

400

We may believe a "regular person" more than an intellectual or a highly-paid celebrity

Plain Folks

400

What figurative language is used here:

"O my Luve is like a red, red rose / That's newly sprung in June; / O my Luve is like the melodie / That's sweetly played in tune."

Simile, Rhyme

400

How many books are in the Harry Potter series? How many movies are in the Harry Potter series?

7 books, 8 movies

500

An artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.

Pastiche

500

Sentimental images to stimulate feelings of pleasure, comfort, and delight.

Warm and Fuzzy

500

"If we let them ban smoking in restaurants because it's unhealthy, eventually they'll ban fast food, too."

Slippery Slope

500

What figurative language is used here?

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”

Juxtaposition

500
In what year was the Macintosh computer introduced?

1984