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If an ad claimed:  "35 people drank this diet soda, and 33 of them subsequently lost weight," the ad is using...

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos
• Allusion

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Which piece of evidence could BEST be used to prove this claim:
The government SHOULD decide what students eat for lunch.

• School lunches, on average have only about 550 calories;however, lunches brought from home have about 850 calories.
• The GAO report said that students in one district refused to eat school lunches for three weeks.
• The rules make lunches cheap for students, but they cost schools money.
  

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Parents should be fined when their
children bully because it will send a
message. Some say It is very difficult for
parents to manage their children
when they leave the house and go to
school. Despite this, thirteen million
kids are bullied each year and
something needs to be done. The fines
will encourage parents to focus on anti-bullying in the home.
Which sentence is the counterclaim?

• Despite this, thirteen million
  kids are bullied each year and
  something needs to be done.
• The fines
  will encourage parents to
  focus on anti-bullying in the home.
• Some say it is very difficult for
  parents to manage their children
  when they leave the house and go to
  school.
• Parents should be fined when their
  children bully because it will send a
  message.

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The act of convincing someone of your point of view.  The author uses a blend of facts and opinions to convince the audience.

• persuasion 
• argument
• description
• narrative

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Proof or facts

• evidence
  
• fiction 
• setting
  
• stanza
  

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What is the other side of the issue (opposite of your claim) called?

• Counterargument

• Conclusion

• Thesis statement

• Ex-claim

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What is the claim in the following argument?

In our experiment, the blocks had different masses: 20 g., 30 g., 44 g., 123 g. and 142 g. but the time for all five blocks to fall was about the same. It took between 1.5 and 1.8 seconds for them to fall. No, mass does not affect how quickly an object falls. Since the blocks had different masses but took about the same time, I know that mass does not affect how quickly something falls.

• In our experiment, the blocks had different masses, 20 g., 30 g., 44 g., 123 g and 142 g but the time for all five blocks to fall was about the same. It took between 1.5 and 1.8 seconds for them to fall.

• No, mass does not affect how quickly an object falls.

• Since the blocks had different masses but took about the same time, I know that mass does not affect how quickly something falls.

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In an argumentative essay, what is evidence?

• It weakens the argument

• It refers to provable facts and it supports and strengthens the claim

• It makes the claim weaker

• It is the counterclaim

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In Kennedy's speech, what comes first, the claim or the counterargument?

• Claim

• Counterargument

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A counter claim is

• the other side of the argument

• the reason for the argument

• the opinion of the majority of the people

• the evidence used in the argument

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