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