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