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