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