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