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