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