SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Paragraph Writing
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
writing-skills
Instructions:
Answer 35 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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 piece of writing that where the reader can easily move from one detail to the next and understand how they are connected.
Conventions
Compare and Contrast
Logical
Word choice
2. Make clear the differences between two or more concepts or things
Narrate
Distinguish
Hook
Persuasive
3. Written in paragraph form; restates the questions; answers the questions with specific details; has a final thought
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Short Response Questions and Answers
Explain
Presentations
4. Give the precise meaning of a word - phrase (group of words) - or concept
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Compare and Contrast
Classify
Define
5. Give a detailed account or picture of a situation - event - pattern - or occurrence
Conventions
Explain
Effect
Describe
6. What the overall writing will be focused on
Conventions
Idea
Sensory Detail
Expository
7. Any piece of writing used to explain something.
Summarize
Organization
Discuss
Expository
8. The feeling of a piece of writing
Spatial
Conventions
Sensory Detail
Mood
9. To retell the important details in the your own words
Expository
Evaluate
Summarize
Presentations
10. Any piece of writing that attempt s to persuade or convince
Word choice
Describe
Sentence fluency
Persuasive
11. What the overall piece of writing is about.
Main Idea
Idea
Transitions
Affect
12. Making sure that there are no errors in spelling - grammar - or punctuation
Distinguish
Conventions
Spatial
Define
13. The last sentence in the paragraph that leaves the reader with one final thought.
Voice
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Distinguish
Main Idea
14. Offer a considered and balanced review that includes all arguments - factors - hypotheses - opinions - and/or conclusions which is supported by appropriate evidence.
Transitions
Word choice
Evaluate
Discuss
15. 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.
Conventions
Transitions
Hook
Word choice
16. The mood or tone of the writing created by the auhor
Sentence fluency
Voice
Conventions
Logical
17. An attention grabbing sentence at the beginning of a paragraph used to get the reader's attention
Hook
Narrative
Conventions
Describe
18. Detail words that help the reader to clearly understand: nouns - verbs - adjectives - adverbs - etc.
Word choice
Affect
Effect
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
19. Show how something is similar - and how it is different
Compare and Contrast
Organization
Transitions
Mood
20. Challenge or debate an issue or idea with purpose of persuading
Compare and Contrast
Define
Main Idea
Argue
21. How sentences flow smoothly from one to the next; use transitions; using different types of sentences: declarative - interrogative - exclamatory - imperative
Describe
Hook
Sentence fluency
Spatial
22. A piece of writing that describes the locations of the details
Chronological (time)
Spatial
Topic sentence
Argue
23. The sentence that states the main idea of the paragraph.
Chronological (time)
Topic sentence
Discuss
Spatial
24. Any sentence that uses details to appeal to the reader's sense of taste - touch - sight - sound - or smell
Expository
Sensory Detail
Organization
Conventions
25. A piece of writing based on what happens first - second - third - etc.
Chronological (time)
Conventions
Define
Persuade
26. Assess the limitations; make judgments
Evaluate
Compare and Contrast
Logical
Transitions
27. How the final product is used
Argue
Presentations
Short Response Questions and Answers
Persuasive
28. To convince using both fact and opinion
Conventions
Persuade
Presentations
Evaluate
29. How something interacts with others
Hook
Affect
Sentence fluency
Conventions
30. Give a detailed account including reasons or causes
Compare and Contrast
Spatial
Explain
Idea
31. Arrange or order by similar characteristics or qualities
Define
Classify
Organization
Voice
32. To tell a story
Persuade
Argue
Narrate
Describe
33. The result of something
Effect
Hook
Clincher/ Conclusion Sentence
Narrate
34. Has a begging - middle - and end
Short Response Questions and Answers
Compare and Contrast
Narrative
Sentence fluency
35. How the writing will look - 1-paragraph - 5-pargraph essay - etc.
Organization
Define
Distinguish
Idea
//
//