Discursive Quiz

A discursive text is:

• a fictional text

• a text that persuades the reader towards a specific perspective

• a text that presents multiple perspectives on a topic

• a non-fiction text

Which of the following techniques is LEAST appropriate in discursive texts?

• rhetorical questions

• imperative command

• anecdote

• allusion

True or False?

Discursive texts must use a formal register.

• True

• False

What gives the following quotation a discursive feel: "we’re conditioned to believe that this is just ‘English teacher speak’ and disregard it, but, in a strange reality, it is truth"?

• Its use of imperative command

• Its use of high modality language

• The inclusive informal tone

• The use of quotation marks

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The structure of a discursive text includes:

• the use of in media res

• an introduction, paragraphs and a conclusion

• Neither. Discursive texts have no structure

Shifting perspective through growth:

• allows the reader to share the developing perspective

• changes a discursive text to a persuasive text

• still acknowledges multiple perspectives

• changes a discursive text into a creative text

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Match the following terms to their definitions:

• three structurally parallel words, phrases or clauses

• Hypophora

• building a list of words to emphasise the connection between the words

• Apophasis

• raising an issue or subject by claiming not to talk about it

• Accumulation

• Asking a question and then answering it straight away

• Tricolon

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Categorise the following techniques:

• Analogy, Simile, Metaphor

• Types of repetition

• Alliteration, Anaphora, Epistrophe

• Types of questions

• Accumulation, lexical chain, tricolon

• Comparative devices

• Hypophora, Rhetorical

• Types of listing

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Reorder the following examples from low modality to high modality:

• Apparently, it is true.

• I doubt it is true.

• It is true.

'On the Internet We're Always Famous' uses the "astoundingly good hearing" of the fennec fox as an example of the impact of the internet on privacy. Which technique is used to do this?

• analogy

• anecdote

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1