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