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