Argumentative Text Analysis Quiz

What is the first step in analyzing the characteristics and structures of an argumentative text?

• Summarizing the conclusion

• Explaining the author's background

• Identifying the claim

• Describing the setting

Who is the intended audience or reader of an argumentative text?

• Children under 5 years old

• People with a background in science

• Individuals interested in the topic

• Teenagers who dislike reading

What is the second step in analyzing the characteristics and structures of an argumentative text?

• Describing the setting

• Summarizing the conclusion

• Explaining the author's background

• Identifying the claim

How does the author use evidence to support the argument in an argumentative text?

• By using emotional language

• By using various types of evidence

• By including fictional characters

• By providing personal opinions

What is Argumentative Text?

• facts, statistics, expert opinions, and examples that support a claim.

• an exaggeration that couldn't possibly be true

• a text in which an author presents a claim and provides reasons and evidence to support the claim

What do you call facts, examples, expert opinions, statistics, and data that authors use to support a claim?

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is a FACT?

• what someone thinks, feels, or believes about something

• a true statement about something that can be proven with evidence.

• a short story about an interesting or funny event authors use to persuade

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is an OPINION?

• what someone thinks, feels, or believes about something

• a true statement about something that can be proven with evidence.

• a short story about an interesting or funny event authors use to persuade

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Match the following

• the people who read a text or listen speech

• INTENDED AUDIENCE

• the people the writer is TARGETING as the readers of a text or listeners of a speech

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• a word or phrase that does not have it's normal literal meaning

• AUDIENCE

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is a RHETORICAL DEVICE?

• a writing or speaking technique used by an author to create a reaction or persuade you to think a certain way

• false or misleading arguments used by writers o persuade their audience to agree with them

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5