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