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WorksheetsPersuasive and Engaging Writing Techniques
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
When writing a piece of discursive or persuasive writing, what acronyms should you know to help you remember engaging techniques?
DAFOREST and IF LIARS SHED HAIR
IF LIARS LOSE HAIRS and INDAFOREST
DAFOREAD and IF LIAR LOSE LIPS
What is a rhetorical question?
A question asked to only gain a emotive response from the audience.
A question asked to make the audience think about rhetoric techniques.
A question asked to receive a loud and passionate response from an audience.
A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.
What persuasive technique can be defined as: Using adjectives that take things to extreme e.g. biggest, greatest, worst, best...?
Flattery
Hyperbole
Superlative
Conjunction
"One of the most important things a child needs is education. Education, education, education." What technique listed below is used in this sentence?
Facts
Alliteration
Statistics
Repetition
From the following options below, which do you think is the best explanation of why the technique direct address is engaging?
Direct address targets the reader individually and makes them an active participant.
Direct address makes the it easier to remember.
Direct address allows the reader to understand the facts more fully.
Direct address encourages the reader to believe the writer more.
Which of the following is not an example of an opinion?
School uniforms make students behave better.
The school term ends on Tuesday, 30th June 2020.
Having fresh fruit in the canteen is the right thing to do.
Homework makes students more intelligent.
You need to have a commanding tone in your piece of writing. Which is the best technique to use to achieve this?
Alliteration
Sibilance
Imperatives
Facts
Starting a piece of writing with: "There is a war coming. A war that will change our school lives forever" is a good example of...?
Facts
Statistics
Rhetorical questions
Hyperbole
What is a good way to support an opinion on something?
Include a fact or statistic
Keep repeating the same point
Move on quickly to your next point
What is a good technique to make readers relate to your ideas and opinions?
Repetition
Hyperbole
Anecdotes
