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