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