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