L3 Persuasive Text Flashcards

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Any text where the main purpose is to present a point of view and seeks to persuade a reader.

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Persuasive Text

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Persuasive text can be an ___, ___, ___, ___, or even an ___

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argument, exposition, discussion, review or even an advertisement

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What to use when Emphasizing a Point through Persuasive Sentences

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  1. Passive Voice
  2. Inverted Word Order
  3. Cleft Sentence: It
  4. Cleft Sentence: What
  5. Do or did
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It is used when the focus is on the action of the person or thing is affected.

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Passive Voice

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The phrases or other expressions precedes a subject.

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Inverted Word Order

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It is used to focus on a word or phrase and to emphasize the intention of the messages by changing the normal sentence pattern with pronoun “ it is “ or “ it was. “

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Cleft Sentence: It

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It is used to emphasize a specific subject or object. The clause introduced by “what” is the subject or object in a sentence.

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Cleft Sentence: What

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We use auxiliary verbs “do” and “did” to add emphasis on sentences.

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Do or Did

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