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Duplicate of Authors Purpose
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Author's Purpose Activity
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What are the five purposes an author gives to his or her audience?
Keep awake, give examples, show off, manipulate etc.
None of the Above
To describe, to inform, to entertain, to entertain
Explain, to reveal, to interest, to educate and to inspire.
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The author only writes the text for one purpose.
False
True
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"This is gonna be a loooooong day." Why does the author use multiple Os in the word "long"?
To add a bit of humor
To unstick the O key
To fill in extra space
To add emphasis to the word
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Which is the best example of a text that Informs?
Poem
Limmerick
Novel
News Article
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A text that has more opinions and facts is likely to be a...
Entertaining Text
Commercial scrpit
Persuasive Text
Autobiography
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The author's purpose is to __ when a story has a moral or that the text contains lots of facts.
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Explain
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What was this Quiz about?
Authors Purpose
Others Purpose
Authors Tortoise
Authors Purple
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A pamphlet in a gym would most likely...
Entertain
None of the Above
Inform
Persuade
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A recipe for making lasagna
Explain
Persuade
None of the Above
Entertain
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You just finished reading Jack and the Beanstalk, What was the author's purpose?
None of the Above
Explain
Inform
Persuade
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What is the Author's Purpose?
Inform
Persuade
Entertain
Explain
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What are some examples of Entertaining Texts?
comic, textbook, joke
story, limerick, comic
biography, diccionary, textbook
joke, poem, novel
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Which is
NOT
an example of things written to persuade?
Poetry
Speeches
Advertisements
Commercials
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Which genre will have less facts?
Fiction
History
NonFiction
Science Fiction
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What does PIE stand for?
Persuade, Enternait, Inform
Pie, Entertain, Inform
Persuade, Entertain, Information
Persuade, Entertain, Inform
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What is the Author's Purpose?
Persuade
Entertain
Inform
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What is the Author's Purpose?
Inform
Information
Entertain
Persuade
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A passage that has more facts than opinions is more likely to be a...
Recipe
Autobiography
Speech
None of the Above
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A pamphlet in a hospital would most likely...
Infrom
Inform
Explain
Entertain
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Which is an example of a title that would be written for the purpose of persuading?
Why Soccer in America will Never be the Top Sport
The Art of Fencing
How to Divide Fractions
Speaking Conversational Chinese
