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