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