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