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