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