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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
Sensory Detail
Sentence fluency
Word choice
Conventions
2. Give a detailed account including reasons or causes
Mood
Explain
Hook
Logical
3. Any piece of writing that attempt s to persuade or convince
Persuasive
Organization
Idea
Compare and Contrast
4. What the overall piece of writing is about.
Narrative
Main Idea
Narrate
Argue
5. How something interacts with others
Affect
Narrative
Organization
Topic sentence
6. Any piece of writing used to explain something.
Expository
Sensory Detail
Persuade
Logical
7. The mood or tone of the writing created by the auhor
Idea
Narrate
Main Idea
Voice
8. What the overall writing will be focused on
Spatial
Mood
Idea
Logical
9. Give the precise meaning of a word - phrase (group of words) - or concept
Explain
Discuss
Define
Logical
10. How the writing will look - 1-paragraph - 5-pargraph essay - etc.
Sentence fluency
Organization
Affect
Spatial
11. The result of something
Spatial
Word choice
Effect
Topic sentence
12. 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.
Short Response Questions and Answers
Topic sentence
Transitions
Mood
13. A piece of writing that describes the locations of the details
Chronological (time)
Expository
Spatial
Organization
14. How the final product is used
Narrative
Evaluate
Effect
Presentations
15. Arrange or order by similar characteristics or qualities
Sentence fluency
Voice
Classify
Organization
16. To tell a story
Narrate
Summarize
Sentence fluency
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
17. Challenge or debate an issue or idea with purpose of persuading
Argue
Narrate
Mood
Short Response Questions and Answers
18. Give a detailed account or picture of a situation - event - pattern - or occurrence
Narrative
Sensory Detail
Compare and Contrast
Describe
19. How sentences flow smoothly from one to the next; use transitions; using different types of sentences: declarative - interrogative - exclamatory - imperative
Sentence fluency
Effect
Chronological (time)
Presentations
20. The last sentence in the paragraph that leaves the reader with one final thought.
Affect
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Voice
Expository
21. To convince using both fact and opinion
Short Response Questions and Answers
Mood
Persuade
Evaluate
22. Any sentence that uses details to appeal to the reader's sense of taste - touch - sight - sound - or smell
Topic sentence
Sensory Detail
Voice
Hook
23. The feeling of a piece of writing
Mood
Idea
Persuade
Narrative
24. Assess the limitations; make judgments
Evaluate
Compare and Contrast
Discuss
Short Response Questions and Answers
25. Has a begging - middle - and end
Narrative
Spatial
Persuasive
Persuade
26. Offer a considered and balanced review that includes all arguments - factors - hypotheses - opinions - and/or conclusions which is supported by appropriate evidence.
Discuss
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Chronological (time)
Persuade
27. Any piece of writing that where the reader can easily move from one detail to the next and understand how they are connected.
Organization
Compare and Contrast
Logical
Effect
28. Written in paragraph form; restates the questions; answers the questions with specific details; has a final thought
Short Response Questions and Answers
Expository
Persuade
Sentence fluency
29. A piece of writing based on what happens first - second - third - etc.
Narrate
Sentence fluency
Distinguish
Chronological (time)
30. The sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph.
Main Idea
Topic sentence
Define
Expository
31. An attention grabbing sentence at the beginning of a paragraph used to get the reader's attention
Compare and Contrast
Distinguish
Hook
Presentations
32. Detail words that help the reader to clearly understand: nouns - verbs - adjectives - adverbs - etc.
Narrate
Chronological (time)
Word choice
Explain
33. Make clear the differences between two or more concepts or things
Hook
Effect
Distinguish
Classify
34. Show how something is similar - and how it is different
Define
Distinguish
Idea
Compare and Contrast
35. To retell the important details in the your own words
Sentence fluency
Effect
Distinguish
Summarize