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