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