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