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