Question

In an effective external persuasive message, the appreciation statement

A. states something complimentary about the audience.
B. anticipates the thoughts of skeptical audience members.
C. states what the sender wants the audience to do.
D. states the problem in strongly negative terms.
E. manipulates the emotions of the audience.

Answer 1

Answer is B.

Step-by-step explanation:

Persuasive messages are messages presented or delivered with an idea of getting or making people believe or accept a point of view that relate to values, beliefs and attitudes, which they wouldn't have done.

Persuasive messages could be internal or external.

The focus of the external persuasive messages tend to be on promoting products and services while that of internal tend to be on ideas promotion.

Billboards, television, smartphones are some of the ways of disseminating persuasive messages.