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