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