Authors purpose and tone

What is authors purpose????

• why the author likes to write
• What the author is writing
• Why the author is writing
• How the author writes

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An author always has only one purpose for writing?

• True

• False

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What are the many different reasons authors write called?

• author's style

• author's vision

• author's purpose

• author's mission

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What are the three reasons we write?
(Authors purpose for writing)

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify
• Perform, Infer, Entertain
• Persuade, Inform, Educate
• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

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Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you
• Make people angry
• Make people think the opposite thing
• Make people happy

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Inform means...

• Give informal speech
• Give information and facts

• Take the form
• Give in a form

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Entertain means...

• To make people scared
• To make people sad
• To make people enjoy something
• To go to the circus

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What is the authors purpose?
"Eating too much cake and not exercising will give us health problems."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

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What is the authors purpose?
"Every house should have a dog. They are cute, loyal and will protect your house."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

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A recipe explaining how to make chicken salad sandwiches is meant to:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

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