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