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