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