Answer for exercise 5
The solution for exercise 5 in chapter 4.5 - Lookback of Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book by Frances Eales and Steve Oakes
Question
- Work in pairs and look at the quotations. What do you think is the source or context of each one?
- Match the persuasive techniques (a-f) with the quotations in Exercise 5A.
Answer
a)
- a political speech - (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863)
- an advert or sales pitch for an Investment, or a retirement home - could be many things
- an advert (probably a battery or mobile phone)
- a literary context (from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov)
- an advert or a pitch for a travel company / programme
- literary - (from As You Like It by Shakespeare)
b)
- 5
- 4 (simile); 6 (metaphor)
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 1