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