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