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