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