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