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