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