Author, Narrator, Author's Purpose Quiz

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?
A poem about a garbage truck that uses a lot of onomatopoeia

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?

A five-paragraph essay in which the author attempts to convince readers to recycle more and to be less wasteful

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?

A short story about a boy who never cleans his room and the horrible mess that accumulates

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?

Instructions on how to make a compost pile

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following? An article in a magazine comparing and contrasting waste management in Melbourne and Sydney

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

Are you driven to school? Do you take a bus?

It should be a requirement for everyone to either share a ride or walk to school every day. If we are serious about saving the planet, we must take steps to conserve energy and reduce fossil fuel emissions.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain
• Instruct

• Criticize

What is the purpose of a narrative written by another student about the first time she tried to ice skate?

• Entertain
• Inform

• Persuade
• Instruct

• Criticize

Many people buy vegetables in the grocery store without knowing where they were grown or how they arrived at the store. Supermarkets should be required to label each fruit or vegetable with a sign telling shoppers where and when the food was grown and how far it traveled to the supermarket.

• Inform
• Entertain

• Persuade
• Criticize

• Instruct

Authors write to...

• Entertain & Inform

• Inform

• Persuade

• Entertain, Inform, Persuade, Explain & Describe

What you learn in school will help you later in life. It will also help you get a job. If you work hard in school and make good grades, you may be able to go to university and have a career.

What is the author's purpose?

• to entertain with a story about school
• to teach you how to get good grades
• to persuade you to work hard in school
• to explain the best colleges