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