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