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