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Persuasive Techniques Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A in AFOREST is for?

a)

Anecdote

b)

Alliteration

c)

Alligator

2.

F in AFOREST is for?

a)

Forest

b)

Font

c)

Facts

3.

O in AFOREST is for?

a)

Options

b)

Opinions

c)

Oranges

4.

R in AFOREST is for?

a)

Rhetorical Question

b)

Rhyme

c)

Rings

5.

E in AFOREST is for?

a)

Elephant

b)

Emotive Language

c)

Examples

6.

S in AFOREST is for?

a)

Statistics

b)

Statements

c)

Snakes

7.

T in AFOREST is for?

a)

Trees

b)

Triples (Rule of three)

c)

Tag line

8.

Which option is an example of alliteration?

a)

What are you going to do about it?

b)

Stop! This must stop!

c)

We must change, correct and consider our decisions.

d)

Mr Green has big teeth.

9.

Which of these is an example of a fact or statistic?

a)

40% of students do not wear the correct uniform.

b)

I don't like wearing my school uniform.

c)

Students don't wear the school uniform.

d)

1 in 3 students are not wearing their complete school uniform.

10.

Which of these is an example of opinion?

a)

Potatoes are tasty.

b)

You should eat potatoes.

c)

Everyone likes potatoes.

d)

In my opinion, potatoes are the tastiest vegetable.

11.

Which technique is this:

Do you really think that is acceptable?

a)

Alliteration

b)

Rhetorical question

c)

Opinion

d)

Statistics

12.

Which technique is this:

The horrific crash on the road caused an inferno, injuring many innocent people.

a)

Emotive language

b)

Opinion

c)

Alliteration

d)

Rhetorical Question

13.

Which technique is this:

Going to the footy will be exciting, amazing and fun!

a)

Fact

b)

Emotive language

c)

Triples (rule of three)

d)

Rhetorical question

14.

‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words...’


Is an example of

a)

repetition

b)

rhetorical question

c)

emotive language

d)

triplet

15.

'...these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is'


Is an example of

a)

fact

b)

opinion

c)

repetition

d)

alliteration

16.

'That remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8 and a half years'

a)

opinion

b)

fact

c)

repetition

d)

onomatopoeia

17.
Deliberate exaggeration or making an overstatement is an example of what device?
a)
Simile
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Rhetoric
d)
Embellishment
18.
A very brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, is an example of what?
a)
Bias
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Anecdote
d)
Antithesis
19.

Which of the AFOREST persuasive devices is being used here? "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me thine ears,"

a)

Repetition

b)

Emotive Language

c)

Alliteration

d)

Three

20.

Three words or phrases linked together

a)

Listing

b)

Triples

c)

Adjectives

d)

Repetition