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