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