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