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