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