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Persuasive Speaking

Authored by Margaret Anderson

English

8th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

Persuasive Speaking
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

A commercial about abandoned animals needing a shelter of a forever home. They ask for a small donation to help these struggling animals. 

Celebrity Endorsement
Emotional Appeal
Testimonial
Bandwagon

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Justin Bieber encouraging people to buy the newest iPod that just reached the market with all its cool new gadgets.

Testimonial
Emotional Appeal
Celebrity Endorsement
Bandwagon

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

A professional tennis player explaining the benefits of the newest tennis racket on the market.

Celebrity Endorsement
Emotional Appeal
Testimonial
Bandwagon

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Royal's promoting their team for the next season by telling people to come join the team because everyone else has.

Humor
Testimonial
Bandwagon
Emotional Appeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique is this?
Using words like ‘we’, ‘you’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ to make your audience think you are talking only to them.

Repetition
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Personal Pronouns

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique is this?
When you pick holes in your opposition’s argument so that your point of view sounds better.

Rhetorical questions
Criticise other points of view
Groups of three
Emotive language

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which persuasive technique is this?
To go over the top and make things sound better or worse than they are.

Emotive language
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Personal pronouns

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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