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