SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Paragraph Writing
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
writing-skills
Instructions:
Answer 35 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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
Effect
Define
Short Response Questions and Answers
Idea
2. How the writing will look - 1-paragraph - 5-pargraph essay - etc.
Conventions
Classify
Voice
Organization
3. Give a detailed account including reasons or causes
Mood
Narrate
Sensory Detail
Explain
4. Making sure that there are no errors in spelling - grammar - or punctuation
Word choice
Sentence fluency
Sensory Detail
Conventions
5. Has a begging - middle - and end
Classify
Evaluate
Narrative
Argue
6. Give the precise meaning of a word - phrase (group of words) - or concept
Topic sentence
Define
Effect
Compare and Contrast
7. How sentences flow smoothly from one to the next; use transitions; using different types of sentences: declarative - interrogative - exclamatory - imperative
Presentations
Persuasive
Sensory Detail
Sentence fluency
8. Give a detailed account or picture of a situation - event - pattern - or occurrence
Short Response Questions and Answers
Persuade
Conventions
Describe
9. The last sentence in the paragraph that leaves the reader with one final thought.
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Idea
Word choice
Narrative
10. Any piece of writing that where the reader can easily move from one detail to the next and understand how they are connected.
Logical
Explain
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Presentations
11. Detail words that help the reader to clearly understand: nouns - verbs - adjectives - adverbs - etc.
Affect
Conventions
Word choice
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
12. Make clear the differences between two or more concepts or things
Distinguish
Logical
Summarize
Word choice
13. To convince using both fact and opinion
Affect
Persuade
Logical
Idea
14. A piece of writing based on what happens first - second - third - etc.
Define
Chronological (time)
Word choice
Sensory Detail
15. Arrange or order by similar characteristics or qualities
Chronological (time)
Classify
Define
Effect
16. Challenge or debate an issue or idea with purpose of persuading
Presentations
Argue
Expository
Topic sentence
17. Any piece of writing used to explain something.
Presentations
Expository
Argue
Mood
18. To tell a story
Narrate
Persuade
Mood
Topic sentence
19. The sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph.
Summarize
Conventions
Mood
Topic sentence
20. A piece of writing that describes the locations of the details
Persuade
Spatial
Expository
Chronological (time)
21. The mood or tone of the writing created by the auhor
Organization
Voice
Describe
Logical
22. How something interacts with others
Affect
Idea
Expository
Narrative
23. To retell the important details in the your own words
Presentations
Summarize
Compare and Contrast
Persuade
24. Assess the limitations; make judgments
Hook
Presentations
Evaluate
Sensory Detail
25. Offer a considered and balanced review that includes all arguments - factors - hypotheses - opinions - and/or conclusions which is supported by appropriate evidence.
Effect
Spatial
Discuss
Describe
26. What the overall piece of writing is about.
Argue
Chronological (time)
Mood
Main Idea
27. Any sentence that uses details to appeal to the reader's sense of taste - touch - sight - sound - or smell
Sensory Detail
Idea
Persuasive
Presentations
28. Any piece of writing that attempt s to persuade or convince
Persuasive
Organization
Sentence fluency
Effect
29. 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
Sensory Detail
Compare and Contrast
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
30. Written in paragraph form; restates the questions; answers the questions with specific details; has a final thought
Persuasive
Describe
Sentence fluency
Short Response Questions and Answers
31. The feeling of a piece of writing
Narrative
Logical
Short Response Questions and Answers
Mood
32. Show how something is similar - and how it is different
Classify
Transitions
Argue
Compare and Contrast
33. An attention grabbing sentence at the beginning of a paragraph used to get the reader's attention
Hook
Compare and Contrast
Argue
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
34. How the final product is used
Expository
Compare and Contrast
Presentations
Conventions
35. The result of something
Transitions
Idea
Spatial
Effect