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