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