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