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