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