Argument Unit Pretest

What is the intended target group of a message called?

• Audience

• Genre

• Appeal

• Topic

A text in which one develops and defends a position or debates a topic

• Argumentative text

• Informative text

• Multimodal text

• Text evidence

Your position or assertion about a particular topic or issue

• Rebuttal

• Concession

• Appeal

• Claim

If a person has a tendency or urge to feel a certain way about something or forms an opinion about a topic before having evidence, they are showing BIAS.

• True

• False

The reason an author writes about a particular topic is known as

• Author's purpose

• Credibility

• Thesis

• Context

A specific subject, idea, or issue that is the focus of a discussion, article, or other work.

• Genre

• Evidence

• Topic

• Thesis

A text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate.

• Argumentative

• Informational

• Multimodal

• Persuasive

1.TikTok is one of the most popular social media apps. 2.Though it is mostly used for entertainment purposes, it does present both useful and educational information. 3.While TikTok does possess some useful information, it poses more problems than solutions because it is time-consuming and addictive.

Which of these sentences is the claim?

• sentence 1

• sentence 2

• sentence 3

• None of them

A statement or premise supported by arguments is called

• Claim

• Appeal

• Thesis

• Key idea

Specific details or facts that support an inference or idea is called

• evidence

• analysis

• text features

• thesis