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