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