PACT Essential Academic Skills Tests 701, 702, 703 questions and answers graded A+ 2023/2024

PACT Essential Academic Skills Tests 701, 702, 703 Descriptive writing - Writing used to create detailed descriptions of people, places, and things, and/or mood and atmosphere. Can stand alone or be part of a narrative Sensory details - descriptions of sight, sound, touch, smell, taste transition words - words that create a sense of time and organize events in the story narrative writing - writing that tells a story or describes a specific person, place, or thing. Persuasive/argumentative writing - writing that seeks to convince the reader ot believe the writer's opinion on a topic Examples of narrative/descriptive writing - short stories, vignettes, letters, memoirs, and poems Examples of Persuasive/argumentative writing - advertisements, commercials, speeches, newspaper editorials, debates Expository/Informative writing - writing that explains a topic or gives general information on a topic examples of Expository/Informative writing - compare/contrast essays, brochures, research reports, informative pieces. rhetorical patterns - sequential order, chronological order, order of importance, spacial order, cause and effect, problem and solution, claim and refutation, compare and contrast sequential order - orderly progression of events, ideas or steps Chronological order - orderly progression of events based on time order of importance - arrangement of ideas with the most important claim at the top or bottom spatial order - arrangement of ideas related o physical space cause and effect - event is described followed by the possible outcomes problem and solution - author presents a problem and a possible solution claim and refutation - arguing against a statement, fact, or claim compare and contrast - provides similarities and differences about two ideas key transitional language - however-turning point first...second...third- process given for example- illustration of point question determining sequential order - Did the author explain a process? Question determining Chronological order - Did the author walk through a process or period in history? question determining order of importance - Did the author use terms like "most importantly" near the top or bottom? question determining spatial order - Did the author keep places together based on geography? Question determining Cause and Effect - Did the author explain what would happen after X occurred? Question determining problem and solution - Did the author pose a problem and then provide answers? Question determining claim and refutation - Did the author provide a statement, use "however" or "in fact", and then provide counter arguments? Question determining compare and contrast - did the author create a paragraph of pros and one of cons? Did the author create a paragraph of similarities and one of differences? Did the author provide two very different ideas or characters? Controversial - a statement that goes against the accepted societal view criticism - author's opinion about an idea or topic Generalization - an overarching statement made about a topic Definition - how a word or concept is defined or explained comparison - points made to show a similarity between two topics summary - author provides a recap of an idea, often at the end of the passage Factors to editing a piece - -reorganizing to create logical flow - remove details that do not support the main idea - remove details that are relevant but distract from the main idea - choosing new vocabulary to eliminate redundant or wordy descriptions -edit phrases for consistency in style or tone Chronological/sequential transition words - first, second, third, next, finally Comparison and contrast transition words - similarly, on the other hand, but, likewise Cause and effect transition words - because, as a result, therefore Definition and example transition words - for example, for instance, such as problem and solution transition words - as a result, because, so that