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