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