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