Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Work in pairs and look at the quotations. What do you think is the source or context of each one?
  2. Match the persuasive techniques (a-f) with the quotations in Exercise 5A.

Answer

a)

  1. a political speech - (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863)
  2. an advert or sales pitch for an Investment, or a retirement home - could be many things
  3. an advert (probably a battery or mobile phone)
  4. a literary context (from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)
  5. an advert or a pitch for a travel company / programme
  6. literary - (from As You Like It by Shakespeare)

b)

  1. 5
  2. 4 (simile); 6 (metaphor)
  3. 3
  4. 1
  5. 2
  6. 1