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