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