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