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Common Core 1.7 Reading Informational Text. Which of the following lines from the text use the most persuasive language? Select all that may apply.

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by persuasion the art of getting

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what you want For some that might be money for

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other's power for us it's Usually doughnuts were just going

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to skim and keep our mind off doughnuts past the

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coffee Always good Good with coffee Okay Here's today's question

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Which of the following lines from the text used the

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most persuasive language Select all that may apply and hear

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your potential answers All right Well that's Kind of a

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weird way to ask it all that may apply What

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does that mean Alright people well here were asked to

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identify persuasive language These air words that have passion Words

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that can inspire words that can convince people that you

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definitely doof loss everyday Answer b is loaded with this

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stuff Sordidness wretchedness tormented The author makes it clear that

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his life was no picnic or at least a very

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pleasant one You know with hanson firestorms answer D is

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also pretty persuasive Why Because comparisons persuade i need you

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is meant But i need you more than i need

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a slice of cheesecake Oh no That's persuasive but cutting

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Right fax Don't persuade They're just statements I was a

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sailor I worked in canneries this's more like linked in

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text profile stuff than persuasive text profile stuff And just

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because the author changes up look it doesn't mean he

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changed hours Dry facts just don't convince people all on

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their own so neither of these statements are persuasive Which

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leaves bnd is the correct answers Next we'll discuss the

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powerful persuasion of advertisements Soda won't actually make you more

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extreme You kind of have teo get off the couch 00:01:40.944 --> [endTime] for that to happen

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