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