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