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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 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.
Expository
Organization
Transitions
Explain
2. The result of something
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Effect
Persuade
Summarize
3. An attention grabbing sentence at the beginning of a paragraph used to get the reader's attention
Hook
Mood
Sensory Detail
Evaluate
4. Any sentence that uses details to appeal to the reader's sense of taste - touch - sight - sound - or smell
Sensory Detail
Expository
Explain
Evaluate
5. Any piece of writing that attempt s to persuade or convince
Sentence fluency
Persuasive
Hook
Spatial
6. Written in paragraph form; restates the questions; answers the questions with specific details; has a final thought
Short Response Questions and Answers
Expository
Sensory Detail
Describe
7. How sentences flow smoothly from one to the next; use transitions; using different types of sentences: declarative - interrogative - exclamatory - imperative
Transitions
Sentence fluency
Sensory Detail
Presentations
8. Making sure that there are no errors in spelling - grammar - or punctuation
Conventions
Define
Transitions
Voice
9. Give a detailed account including reasons or causes
Persuade
Sentence fluency
Spatial
Explain
10. Assess the limitations; make judgments
Evaluate
Summarize
Idea
Compare and Contrast
11. The mood or tone of the writing created by the auhor
Voice
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Compare and Contrast
Describe
12. The feeling of a piece of writing
Explain
Word choice
Conventions
Mood
13. How the writing will look - 1-paragraph - 5-pargraph essay - etc.
Organization
Describe
Chronological (time)
Persuasive
14. Any piece of writing that where the reader can easily move from one detail to the next and understand how they are connected.
Main Idea
Discuss
Logical
Argue
15. Challenge or debate an issue or idea with purpose of persuading
Spatial
Voice
Hook
Argue
16. Show how something is similar - and how it is different
Discuss
Narrate
Summarize
Compare and Contrast
17. What the overall piece of writing is about.
Main Idea
Sensory Detail
Transitions
Expository
18. Has a begging - middle - and end
Narrative
Mood
Topic sentence
Transitions
19. How the final product is used
Main Idea
Distinguish
Spatial
Presentations
20. Arrange or order by similar characteristics or qualities
Classify
Sensory Detail
Topic sentence
Hook
21. Give a detailed account or picture of a situation - event - pattern - or occurrence
Describe
Define
Discuss
Compare and Contrast
22. To retell the important details in the your own words
Spatial
Summarize
Chronological (time)
Evaluate
23. What the overall writing will be focused on
Hook
Idea
Explain
Sensory Detail
24. To tell a story
Persuasive
Narrate
Idea
Voice
25. A piece of writing that describes the locations of the details
Sensory Detail
Spatial
Main Idea
Persuasive
26. Offer a considered and balanced review that includes all arguments - factors - hypotheses - opinions - and/or conclusions which is supported by appropriate evidence.
Chronological (time)
Conventions
Hook
Discuss
27. A piece of writing based on what happens first - second - third - etc.
Chronological (time)
Conventions
Distinguish
Organization
28. To convince using both fact and opinion
Transitions
Idea
Persuade
Sentence fluency
29. Give the precise meaning of a word - phrase (group of words) - or concept
Persuasive
Short Response Questions and Answers
Define
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
30. The sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph.
Topic sentence
Argue
Effect
Short Response Questions and Answers
31. Detail words that help the reader to clearly understand: nouns - verbs - adjectives - adverbs - etc.
Word choice
Mood
Main Idea
Effect
32. How something interacts with others
Distinguish
Affect
Mood
Word choice
33. Make clear the differences between two or more concepts or things
Presentations
Logical
Sensory Detail
Distinguish
34. The last sentence in the paragraph that leaves the reader with one final thought.
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Classify
Short Response Questions and Answers
Narrate
35. Any piece of writing used to explain something.
Idea
Affect
Define
Expository