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