Identify Purpose

What is the author's purpose in writing this text?

• Author's purpose is to confuse

• Author's purpose is to entertain

• Author's purpose is to inform or persuade.

• Author's purpose is to summarize

What is the main goal of the text?

• To inform, persuade, entertain, or describe a topic.

• To provide personal anecdotes

• To sell a product

• To confuse the reader

How does the author try to convince the reader in the given passage?

• Logical reasoning, evidence, and persuasive language

• Emotional appeal, repetition, and complex vocabulary

• Personal anecdotes, humor, and rhetorical questions

• Contradictory statements, irrelevant information, and vague language

What is the intended effect of the rhetorical question in this speech?

• Create a sense of urgency

• Prompt a direct response

• Engage the audience, provoke thought, and emphasize a point without expecting a direct answer.

• Confuse the audience

If you know the kind of passage you are reading, it will help you...

• identify the evidence needed

• identify the author's purpose

• identify the answer

• none of the above

The author's purpose usually falls into which category?

• inform

• persuade

• entertain

• all of the above

If the author provides factual information, the author is writing to:

• inform

• persuade

• entertain

An author will write to ________ if they want to make you laugh, cry, feel suspense or just enjoy the writing piece.

• inform

• persuade

• entertain

__________ writing usually contains facts.

• informative

• persuasive

• entertaining

If the author wants to influence the reader to think, believe or act in a certain way then, he/she is writing to

• inform

• persuade

• entertain