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