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