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