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