WorksheetsArgumentative Techniques
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is a claim?
an opinion you will try to convince someone to agree with.
an opinion
A fact about your main idea
a request for money from an insurance company
What is support?
Holding something up
being there for a friend
reasons and evidence to persuade someone of your claim
the slimy coat on the tail of snakes
Who might try to influence your decisions in life?
Friends
Parents
Strangers
Friends, Parents and Strangers
Why would someone try to convice you of something? Choose all of the correct answers.
because they care about you
Because they want money
Because they are cruel
Because they don't care
What is motivation?
encouragement
The reason someone would try to convince you.
boredom
a country in Europe
Select the correct structure for an essay.
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Introducition
Conclusion
Introducion
Body
Body
Body
Conclusion
Body
What is consensus
when everyone disagrees
when a celebrity tells you to buy something
When an expert tells you to buy something
The idea that everyone is doing it so you should too.
The idea that if you don't do something now, you may miss out.
bandwagon
scarcity
liking
Authority
The idea that if you compliment someone or find things you have in common, the person is more likely to agree with you
liking
bandwagon
consensus
applesauce
The idea that someone with expertise is more convincing. (choose all correct answers)
Authority
Testimonial
Bandwagon
Consensus
The category of techniques that include bandwagon and testimonial
appeals by adjudication
appeals by vacation
appeals by association
appeals by feelings
Using a celebrity or an expert to convince you to do or beleive something.
Support
Bandwagon
Testimonial
Consensus
Using feelings to convince you
Emotional Outbursts
Emotional Appeals
Feeling Words
Feeling Frentic
When someone compliments you to persuade you to agree with them.
Appeal to Beauty
Appeal to Vanity
Emotional Appeals
Loaded Language
When someone uses language with strongly possitive or strongly negative words.
Emotional Appeal
Appeal to Vanity
Testimonial
Loaded Language
When you address the other side's concerns in an argument
planning
attack
trashing
counterargument
Why is being VAGUE in an argument a problem?
They could be hiding something
They are more convincing
They are not taking up enough space
They ate a caterpillar.
When someone mentions something unrelated to the argument.
counter argument
Vague Language
Irrelevant Examples
Overgeneralization
Overgeneralizations are not persuasive because they use
vague language
counter arguments
absolute language
Irrelevant Examples
The best way to be persuasive is to...
state your reasons
explain
give reasons and evidence
use overgeneralization and vague language.
