English Discourse (Matching Type) Test. This test covers various topics in English discourse including paragraph development patterns and others. Answers are currently unavailable.
Choices
(a) Actions (b) Affective Pattern (c) Argumentation (d) Artistic Description (e) Cause and Effect (f) Character (g) Character Sketch (h) Classification and Partition (i) Circular Pattern (j) Circumlocution (k) Comment and Criticism (l) Comparison (m) Description (n) Differentia (o) Discourse (p) Essay (q) Exposition (r) Exposition of an Abstract Term (s) Exposition of a Process (t) Formal Essay (u) Grammar (v) Genus (w) Horizontal Pattern (x) How-did-it-happen (y) How-it-is-organized (z) How-it-works
(aa) How-to-do-it (bb) Individual Sketch (cc) Informal Essay (dd) Informative Description (ee) Narration (ff) Narrative Interspersion (gg) Phonology (hh) Plotted Narration (ii) Problem and Solution (jj) Recursion (kk) Sequence (ll) Setting (mm) Spatial Pattern (nn) Simple Narration (oo) Summary (pp) Temporal Pattern (qq) Term (rr) Vertical Pattern (ss) Vocabulary
Statements
- a coherent succession of sentences, either spoken or written
- the time and place of the action in a narrative
- a narrative of events that really happened
- describing how the subject occupies space
- a statement of a problem and one or more solutions
- listing one or more causes and the results or effects
- listing items of events in numerical or chronological order
- appeals to the intellect
- appeals to the sense of beauty by stimulating the imagination
- best with subjects that are taller that they are wide
- fictional, results of author’s invention or ingenuity
- transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a subject matter
- incidents in a story
- moves from left to right, or right to left
- used whenever something involved is not in a straight line
- restating ideas using different words or symbolism
- embedding a narrative within an expository text
- exposition of author’s thoughts or reflections on a subject matter
- writing individual traits to set forth an idea of a person
- giving information and instruction
- revealing writer’s personality to comment on interesting matter
- usually published in newspapers and magazines
- class or concept to which a term belongs
- sorting of information into categories, and breaking up into pieces
- convincing others of the truth or falsity of a disputed matter
- shows an operation in its successive stages
- description of event in chronological order
- a person or participant involved in a story
- describing the effect, a person or a thing has on the writer
- a discourse used to explain, describe, or give information
- a pattern of description also referring to narration
- discussing a topic then diverting to a related but different topic
- shows how an organization functions by its departments
- causal process, shows how and why an event occurred
- achieved by definition, by analogy, etc., or by combined methods
- a word being defined
- gives directions for doing something in a manner of a recipe
- study of speech sounds used in a language
- stock of words employed by a language
- set of rules that explain how words are used in a language