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