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Persuasive or Not?
Rhetorical Appeals
Business or Friendly Letter?
What's Missing? And grammar Checks
Mystery Box
100
The act of convincing on or more individuals to do something.
What is persuasion?
100
There is a rhetorical appeal being used in Obama's Acceptance Speech, he sais ''yes we can'' several times near the end of the speech.
What is repetition?
100
Dear Sir or Madame, I am not satisfied with this product because...
What is a business letter?
100
sentence: These days people have been really mean to me, people yelling, pushing, and shoving. Someone even yelled ''SHUT UP''.
What is a exclamation mark?
100
The 'T' is TPCAST stands for ___________
What is connotation?
200
''My friend says that there is a cool car store across the block, you want to check it out? I heard that you need a car so let's go there, plus the cars are pretty cheap.''
What is persuasion?
200
''just think about your children, what would happen to them if this incident happens again. Think about you family!''
What is ethos?
200
-''what was Ms. Taylor's homework?'' -''IDK''
What is a Friendly Letter?
200
That person has not done his work and keeps fooling around so the teacher gave him a detention_ The student didn't appear to detention that day and did not come to school either.
What is a period.
200
when you don't understand a word, you should always use a _________.
What is a dictionary?
300
Get this car insurance and your rent will go down twice as much as progressive! With this insurance you will never have to rummage through the internet looking for quotes and reviews so get this car insurance!
What is persuasion?
300
A common technique that most people us in speeches and persuasive essays in which the speaker/author asks a question in the essay/speech then answers them at points in the speech/essay.
What is hyperphora?
300
-''I'm not really satisfied with product because it came with dust and faded color.'' -''You should send a letter to the company explain that this stupid product was dusty and had faded color''
What is a friendly letter?
300
The author uses this as a symbol that represents the defining of a word.
What is a colon?
300
You have to provide good _________ when writing a persuasive or expository essay.
What is information?
400
Pollution is becoming a big problem for the environment and we need to do something about it. We must take care of our environment by doing such simple tasks...
What is non-persuasion?
400
Hanging out with my friends makes me realize how much life is to me. We lived and laughed and loved and left.
What is Polysyndeton?
400
''I have sent you a list of complaints and compliments a month ago. The letter I sent you is really professional and deals with business so I really need you to read it. Could you do me a favor by checking you postage/mailbox. - Thanks!
What is a friendly letter?
400
What grammatical symbol is this? This sentence represents a sentence the author could have ended but chose not to. Usually replaces the word 'because'.
What is a semicolon (;)
400
Find the simile: 'She found a sweater that she liked a lot and bought it. The sweater was yellow and was bright as the sun. She wore the sweater the next day I saw her.'
What is ''bright as the sun''
500
''I have this great vacuum that cleans better than my last one, I really like it''
What is non-persuasion?
500
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” *HINT*: The act of positioning close together to from a comparison that hints to a conclusion.
What is Juxtaposition?
500
Dear ''mah bro'', I hope you had a gr8 trip to Spain. I heard there are a lot of famous people there and I hope u are having a really good time. I'm just at home chillin... sincerely, Jason
What is friendly letter?
500
sentence: People like many colors for their room but a primary color is very hard to choose. I saw someone that had a really good room and it had nice colors. The colors were very broad. It had blue, yellow, green, red and pink.
where is a comma after the word 'red'?
500
The difference between a expository essay and a personal narrative is _____________________________________
How does a expository essay give facts and a personal narrative talks about the author's experience?