📚 Part A: Identify the Question Type

Instructions: Write R if the question is rhetorical (doesn't expect an answer). Write Q if it's a real question expecting an answer.

1. Why should we care about the environment? ____

2. Do you want to be tired all day? ____

3. What time do you start school? ____

4. Isn't reading a great way to learn new things? ____

5. Where did you put your book? ____

6. Don't we all want a happy life? ____

7. Who wouldn't want to help their friends? ____

8. How many pencils do you have? ____

✏️ Part B: Write Your Own Rhetorical Questions

Instructions: Choose one topic below (or your own) and write 3 rhetorical questions that could persuade someone.

Topic ideas: Playing outside • Eating fruit • Recycling • Helping at home

My chosen topic: _________________________

1. Rhetorical Question:

2. Rhetorical Question:

3. Rhetorical Question:

9. Why do writers use rhetorical questions in persuasive writing? Choose the best answer:

To get information from the reader

To make the reader think and feel a certain way

To confuse the reader

To ask for help

10. Complete this sentence: A rhetorical question is asked to make a _________ rather than to get an _________.