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