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WorksheetsPersuasive language techniques and appeals
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What are persuasive language techniques and/or appeals?
They're large sticks that you hit people with if they don't do what you want.
They are language skills used in writing to persuade people to believe something.
They are language skills used in writing and speaking to persuade people to believe nothing.
They are language skills used in writing and speaking to persuade people to believe something.
How many persuasive language appeals are there?
2
4
8
6
What are the four persuasive language appeals called?
Logos, Ethos, Pathos and Kairos.
Logic, Ethics, Passion and cake.
Logos, Ethos, Pathos and Karos.
Peter, Siven, Jack and Wilson.
Logos persuades people by appealing to their sense of what?
Hunger
Emotion
Logic
Time
Ethos persuades people by appealing to their sense of what?
Credibility
Fashion
Suffering
Logic
Pathos persuades people by appealing to their sense of.....?
Time
Logic
Credibility
Emotion
Statistics, facts and figures can be used as persuasive techniques to enhance the appeal of what?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Kairos
Why are statistics and facts often used in relation to Logos?
Why not?
Because statistics, facts and Logos are best friends.
Because statistics appeal to our sense of reason and logic.
Because facts appeal to our sense of emotion.
“Because of the invasion I lost my home, job, all my possessions and my entire family were killed or imprisoned.”
The above quote appeals to our sense of emotion. This falls under the category of what persuasive language appeal?
(a)
"My doctor says eating too much junk food will make me fat."
This persuasive language technique is known as what?
Emotive language.
An appeal to authority/credibility.
Statistics and facts,
Rhetorical questions.
An appeal to authority or credibility is a technique often used for which persuasive language appeal?
Logos
Pathos
Kairos
Ethos
Kairos persuades people by appealing to their sense of what?
Time
Emotion
Justice
Pain
Which of the following could be used for Kairos? (Appeal to our sense of timeliness/time.)
"8% of the world's population has blue eyes."
"My teacher says if I don't study I won't get into a good university."
"Do you think I want to give my grandmother Covid-19?"
"I think bananas are better than apples because I like the colour yellow."
Logos, Ethos, Pathos and Kairos are originally words from what language?
English
Irish
Chinese
Greek
America represents less than 5% of the world's population yet accounts for 25% of the worlds' prison population. In other words, one in four people around the world who are in prison, are in American prisons.
This is both a statistic and an appeal to logos.
This is a statistic.
This is an appeal to logos.
This is false.
