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