Coraline - Writing To Persuade

6 Questions | By Ghsenglishandmed | Last updated: Jul 30, 2011 | Total Attempts: 105

A quiz created for students at GHS to prepare you to make an advertisement to persuade people to enter the other world.

Questions and Answers

1.

It's really important that the other mother's advertising agency uses persuasive techniques to make their campaign really successful. Your objective is the recognise the peruasive techniques. Our first persuasive technique: rhetorical questions. This is asking a question to make the reader think.Which of these is a rhetorical question?
- A.
  
  'The other world is amazingly awesome.'
- B.
  
  ‘Can you think of a better place to be?’
- C.
  
  ‘The other world is magical, fantastical and amazing’.
2.

Which of the examples below uses emotive language? This means using language that appeals to the reader’s emotions (fear, love..)
- A.
  
  ‘The other world is amazingly awesome.’
- B.
  
  ‘The other mother will cook you at least three of your favourite meals each day’
- C.
  
  ‘The other mother will love you’
3.

Which of the examples below uses Direct Address? This is talking to the reader by using ‘you’. It makes the advertisement more personal.
- A.
  
  ‘You can live a better life in the other world’
- B.
  
  ‘The other world is magical, fantastical and amazing’.
- C.
  
  ‘The other world is amazingly awesome.’
4.

Which of the examples below uses facts?Here's the definition: facts – giving hard evidence, for example, numbers, to make your case sound believable
- A.
  
  ‘The other world is magical, fantastical and amazing’.
- B.
  
  ‘The other world is amazingly awesome.’
- C.
  
  ‘The other mother will cook you at least three of your favourite meals each day’
5.

Which of the examples below uses tripling? Tripling is isting three words one after the other.
- A.
  
  ‘You can live a better life in the other world’
- B.
  
  ‘The other world is magical, fantastical and amazing’.
- C.
  
  ‘Can you think of a better place to be?’
6.

And finally... Which one uses alliteration?Definition:Alliteration – using words which start with the same letter
- A.
  
  ‘The other world is amazingly awesome.’
- B.
  
  ‘The other mother will cook you at least three of your favourite meals each day’
- C.
  
  ‘Can you think of a better place to be?’

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