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