WorksheetsNonfiction/Persuasive Writing Review
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
This type of appeal uses FACTS, STATISTICS, and EXPERT TESTIMONIES
Logical appeal
Ethical appeal
Emotional appeal
This type of appeal often uses testimonials, loaded words, bandwagon appeal, and glittering generalities.
Logical appeal
Ethical appeal
Emotional appeal
This type of appeal uses the law, morality, faith, and our sense of right and wrong. It often uses a person's character to make arguments.
Logical appeal
Ethical appeal
Emotional appeal
This type of approach uses provable facts and evidence to convince you to think or act in a certain way.
Subjective approach
Objective approach
This approach uses Focuses on the writer’s experiences, feelings, and opinions to convince you to think or act in a certain way.
Subjective approach
Objective approach
Which appeal is stronger, the subjective approach or the objective approach?
Subjective approach
Objective approach
The purpose of MOST argumentative writing is to...
Inform
Persuade
Explain
Describe
True or False: All persuasive writing contains bias.
True
False
An error in reasoning is called a
(a)
A broad, general statement or conclusion that is made on the basis of only one or two observations is called
a hasty generalization
stereotyping
name-calling
false cause and effect
This occurs when one event is said to cause another event because the two events happened in sequence.
hasty generalization
stereotyping
name-calling
false cause and effect
This fallacy assumes that there are only two possible choices or solutions (usually extreme), even though there may be many.
hasty generalization
name-calling
either-or-fallacy
stereotyping
This logical fallacy uses labels to attack a person who holds an opposing view, instead of giving reasons or evidence to attack the view itself.
hasty generalization
stereotyping
name-calling
either-or-fallacy
This logical fallacy gives all members of a group the same, usually undesirable, characteristics. This fallacy assumes that everyone in that group is alike.
hasty generalization
name-calling
stereotyping
cherry picking
This is a logical fallacy where to unrelated things are compared based on flawed or false reasoning. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency.
hasty generalization
false equivalence
either-or-fallacy
name-calling
This fallacy is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position while ignoring a significant portion of related and similar cases or data that may contradict that position.
either-or-fallacy
cherry picking
false cause and effect
stereotyping
What logical fallacy occurs in the following example: "America -- Love It Or Leave It."
hasty generalization
stereotyping
name-calling
either-or-fallacy
What logical fallacy occurs in the following statement: All old people are ignorant when it comes to technology.
hasty generalization
false cause and effect
stereotyping
namecalling
What logical fallacy occurs in the following example: My friend James drinks 12 energy drinks every day and he has never had any problems with them. Therefore, energy drinks are not bad for you.
false cause and effect
hasty generalization
name-calling
false cause and effect
What logical fallacy occurs in the following statement: we have had a bad economy ever since that guy was elected president!
either-or-fallacy
hasty generalization
stereotyping
false cause and effect
What logical fallacy occurs in the following example: A school district shared data from testing that showed improvement in reading scores but neglected to show a decline in math scores and claimed to have had a completely successful year.
hasty generalization
false cause and effect
cherry picking
name-calling
What logical fallacy occurs in the following statement: "My opponent Senator Johnson apparently never learned about climate change in school so he doesn't understand how important of an issue it is to his fellow Americans."
hasty generalization
false cause and effect
stereotyping
name-calling
What logical fallacy occurs in the following example: You cannot judge my client's company for dumping bio waste in the ocean when you yourself don't recycle.
false cause and effect
either-or-fallacy
false equivalence
namecalling
