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