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