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