Author's Purpose

Author's Purpose

Multiple Choice

All of the following are reason why authors write except?

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Inform

• Illustrate

Author's Purpose! PIE

• Persuade: author writes to get you to do something or believe what they are saying.

• Inform: author writes to give information about a topic.

  
  

• Entertain: author writes to tell you a story that you will enjoy.

Multiple Choice

Do you carpool to school? Do you take a bus? It should be a requirement for everyone to either share a ride or walk to school every day. If we are serious about saving the planet, we must take steps to conserve energy and reduce fossil fuel emissions.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

Today, it is not uncommon to see women wearing high-heeled shoes. However, the first high-heeled shoes were actually made for men back in the 1500s. The heels helped soldiers keep their feet in the stirrups of their saddles as they rode into battle.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Explain

Multiple Choice

Caroline Bartlett Crane was born in 1858 in Hudson, Wisconsin. After working as a teacher, she became a journalist and an ordained minister. Crane was an activist who worked toward women’s voting rights in the United States. Her tireless efforts at improving sanitation in large cities—especially in the slums where the poorest residents lived—earned her the title “America’s Housekeeper.”

• Persuade

• Entertain

• Inform

Multiple Choice

“Once upon a time in a magical kingdom, there lived a great hero. He was about to set out on a dangerous quest!”

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

Sarah knew time travel was impossible. Everything she’d learned in science told her it couldn’t be done. But as she looked around the street, noting the horse-drawn carriages and the women dressed in long dresses and hats, she realized she was in the nineteenth century.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

In a non-fiction book, the author's purpose is to:

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

Advertisements are created to:

• Persaude

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

The author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Multiple Choice

When referring to author's purpose "PIE" stands for:

• Perform, Inform, Explain

• Perfect, Include, Entertain

• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

• Persuade, Include, Explain