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