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