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