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