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