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