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