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