Types of text

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Level 2 Communication
Lynsey Maginnes
Quiz by Lynsey Maginnes, updated more than 1 year ago
Lynsey Maginnes
Created by Lynsey Maginnes about 6 years ago
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Question 1

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What is the purpose of informative text?
Answer
  • To persuade you to buy something
  • To describe how a scene might look in a novel
  • To provide clear facts about something
  • To tell you how to do something

Question 2

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What is this text passage trying to persuade you to do?
Answer
  • To go on holiday
  • To make some home improvements
  • To take out a loan with the advertising loan company
  • To buy something you’ve always wanted

Question 3

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What type of text is the following passage?
Answer
  • Descriptive
  • Instructive
  • Informative
  • Persuasive

Question 4

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Why is this car insurance company giving away a brand new car?
Answer
  • To help customers to replace cars more than 6 years old
  • To persuade you to take out car insurance with this company
  • To help customers afford a new car
  • To persuade customers to have environmentally-friendly cars

Question 5

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What type of text would you need to use to tell someone how to wire a plug?
Answer
  • Persuasive
  • Instructive
  • Informative
  • Descriptive

Question 6

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What feature of persuasive text is not used in this text?
Answer
  • Capital letters
  • Exclamation marks
  • Humour
  • Rhetorical questions

Question 7

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What is the purpose of the following passage of text?
Answer
  • To inform the reader that bleeding needs to be controlled
  • To describe the scene of an accident
  • To persuade the reader to attend a First Aid course
  • To instruct you on what to do if you come across an accident

Question 8

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Why might a personal loan company include the following line in their advertisement?
Answer
  • Why might a personal loan company include the following line in their advertisement?
  • To persuade you to take out a loan for £5 000
  • To inform you that your loan application will be accepted
  • To describe the range of services offered by the company

Question 9

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Which of the following are not normally used in descriptive texts?
Answer
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Step by step action to be taken by the reader
  • Comparisons to enable the reader to picture something

Question 10

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Which of the following is not a piece of text?
Answer
  • An email
  • A newspaper article
  • A portrait
  • An advertisement
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