Question

What is a characteristic of a call to action in a persuasive essay?

Answer 1

Your answer is number 3

Answer 2

Answer: The right answer is the 3) Asks the audience to do something specific.

Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that a call to action is meant to encourage readers to take an immediate action, usually about a problem. A persuasive essay that features a call to action will probably provoke emotion and/or enthusiasm, but that's not the main characteristic of a call to action, so option 4 should be discarded. Likewise, a call to action is neither meant to convince the audience to consider a differing point of view (quite the opposite), nor to help them to interpret an argument, so options 1 and 2 are also incorrect. Effective calls to action usually feature command verbs, a clear and concise language, and a well-reasoned argument.