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