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