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