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