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