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Paragraph Writing
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Subject
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writing-skills
Instructions:
Answer 35 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Any sentence that uses details to appeal to the reader's sense of taste - touch - sight - sound - or smell
Sensory Detail
Idea
Argue
Conventions
2. Give a detailed account including reasons or causes
Spatial
Persuasive
Sentence fluency
Explain
3. A piece of writing based on what happens first - second - third - etc.
Sensory Detail
Mood
Chronological (time)
Discuss
4. Show how something is similar - and how it is different
Compare and Contrast
Sensory Detail
Mood
Short Response Questions and Answers
5. Challenge or debate an issue or idea with purpose of persuading
Describe
Hook
Argue
Classify
6. Has a begging - middle - and end
Idea
Describe
Narrative
Distinguish
7. The sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph.
Explain
Topic sentence
Define
Classify
8. To tell a story
Transitions
Narrate
Expository
Voice
9. What the overall writing will be focused on
Idea
Voice
Main Idea
Classify
10. To retell the important details in the your own words
Presentations
Narrative
Summarize
Effect
11. Any piece of writing that attempt s to persuade or convince
Persuasive
Define
Sentence fluency
Presentations
12. Any word or phrase (group of words) used to move from one idea to the next - one sentence to the next - or one paragraph to the next.
Transitions
Distinguish
Spatial
Topic sentence
13. Offer a considered and balanced review that includes all arguments - factors - hypotheses - opinions - and/or conclusions which is supported by appropriate evidence.
Voice
Sentence fluency
Describe
Discuss
14. Written in paragraph form; restates the questions; answers the questions with specific details; has a final thought
Mood
Distinguish
Short Response Questions and Answers
Voice
15. A piece of writing that describes the locations of the details
Spatial
Define
Argue
Mood
16. Make clear the differences between two or more concepts or things
Discuss
Distinguish
Idea
Organization
17. How sentences flow smoothly from one to the next; use transitions; using different types of sentences: declarative - interrogative - exclamatory - imperative
Hook
Effect
Word choice
Sentence fluency
18. Detail words that help the reader to clearly understand: nouns - verbs - adjectives - adverbs - etc.
Mood
Effect
Word choice
Sentence fluency
19. The result of something
Effect
Mood
Sentence fluency
Persuade
20. Any piece of writing used to explain something.
Expository
Narrative
Describe
Define
21. Assess the limitations; make judgments
Define
Logical
Sentence fluency
Evaluate
22. Give the precise meaning of a word - phrase (group of words) - or concept
Affect
Define
Mood
Persuasive
23. An attention grabbing sentence at the beginning of a paragraph used to get the reader's attention
Compare and Contrast
Sentence fluency
Hook
Short Response Questions and Answers
24. To convince using both fact and opinion
Main Idea
Sentence fluency
Persuade
Distinguish
25. How the final product is used
Presentations
Compare and Contrast
Distinguish
Short Response Questions and Answers
26. What the overall piece of writing is about.
Hook
Main Idea
Narrative
Persuasive
27. How something interacts with others
Compare and Contrast
Conventions
Explain
Affect
28. How the writing will look - 1-paragraph - 5-pargraph essay - etc.
Short Response Questions and Answers
Sentence fluency
Affect
Organization
29. Making sure that there are no errors in spelling - grammar - or punctuation
Main Idea
Chronological (time)
Define
Conventions
30. Give a detailed account or picture of a situation - event - pattern - or occurrence
Word choice
Define
Main Idea
Describe
31. The mood or tone of the writing created by the auhor
Describe
Narrative
Voice
Conventions
32. Arrange or order by similar characteristics or qualities
Define
Distinguish
Mood
Classify
33. Any piece of writing that where the reader can easily move from one detail to the next and understand how they are connected.
Voice
Define
Logical
Sentence fluency
34. The last sentence in the paragraph that leaves the reader with one final thought.
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Presentations
Effect
Spatial
35. The feeling of a piece of writing
Mood
Organization
Persuasive
Define