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