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