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Flashcards: Choosing effective opening, transitional, and closing sentences

(1) Leo Tolstoy was a Russian author widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. (2) His great works include lengthy novels like War and Peace and Anna Karenina as well as short stories, novellas, plays, and essays. (3) Tolstoy being born in 1828 in the southwest of Russia. (4) Although he had the good fortune of being born into a privileged family, his parents died while he was very young. (5) As a young man, he spent most of his time in Moscow and St. Petersburg. (6) What he was doing in Moscow and St. Petersburg was gambling. (7) In 1851, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. (8) This was also around the time that he began his writing career. (9) It might be inferred that his military service accounts for the dramatic transition from irresponsible youth to virtuosic literary giant. (10) In the 1870s, Tolstoy underwent a serious ideological shift. (11) During this period he began a dedicated study of biblical teachings and became an avid Christian pacifist. (12) Even though he was born to an aristocratic family, he believed that the aristocracy was a burden to the poor. (13) His political writings influenced much Christian anarchist thought that followed. (14) Tolstoy also became a staunch believer in the economic theory of Georgism. (15) Georgism holds that the natural resources of the land should belong to the community, rather than to a single private owner. (16) Many of these philosophies are evident in his fiction, which often includes characters who work the land and long, rhapsodic passages celebrating the natural world.

If the writer wanted to insert a sentence between sentences (4) and (5), which would fit best in the passage?

His wife Sophia was sixteen years his junior.

Tolstoy and his siblings were raised by relatives until they were old enough to live on their own.

Anna Karenina is considered by some to be the greatest novel of all time.

Tolstoy's work has gone on to influence many great artists.

More recent translations of Tolstoy's work have generated controversy.

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Flashcards: Choosing effective opening, transitional, and closing sentences

If the writer wanted to insert a sentence between sentences (4) and (5), which would fit best in the passage?

Your answer:

His wife Sophia was sixteen years his junior.

Your answer:

Anna Karenina is considered by some to be the greatest novel of all time.

Your answer:

Tolstoy's work has gone on to influence many great artists.

Your answer:

More recent translations of Tolstoy's work have generated controversy.

Correct answer:

Tolstoy and his siblings were raised by relatives until they were old enough to live on their own.

Explanation:

This sentence effectively transitions chronologically from the sentence describing how Tolstoy was orphaned to how he spent his life as a young man. The other answers concerning his marriage and his work are not related to the sentences coming before or after. This is the only answer that provides a bridge between sentences (4) and (5) by alluding to both his family (the topic of sentence (4)) and his young adulthood (the topic of sentence (5)).

Flashcards: Choosing effective opening, transitional, and closing sentences

Harrison had math test last Wednesday. He studied really well and thought that he did really good. When he walked into school today, Harrison’s teacher looked at him strangely. Harrison started to sweat, because he assumed the teacher’s expression meant he did poorly on the test. Harrison began to wonder wear he went wrong. The teacher walks around the room and handed out the graded assessments. Then the teacher, who had been walking around the room, paused in front of Harrison’s desk, and Harrison thought that he must of performed worst on the test than the rest of the class had. Then, to Harrison’s surprise, the teacher smiled, exclaiming that Harrison had scored one hundred percent.

What is the most appropriate opening sentence for the passage?

Harrison thought he did well on his math test.

A student took a math test.

Eighth grade student, Harrison, experienced quite the scare in school today.

Harrison was in eighth grade.

Many students take math class.

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Flashcards: Choosing effective opening, transitional, and closing sentences

What is the most appropriate opening sentence for the passage?

Your answer:

Harrison thought he did well on his math test.

Your answer:

A student took a math test.

Your answer:

Harrison was in eighth grade.

Your answer:

Many students take math class.

Correct answer:

Eighth grade student, Harrison, experienced quite the scare in school today.

Explanation:

The correct answer choice gives the audience an insight into what passage they are about to read. An effective opening sentence is a "hook" that makes the reader interested in reading the rest of the selection. The correct answer choice foreshadows the plot of the passage and introduces the protagonist. The other answer choices are either too vague ("Many students take math class.") or jump into the plot of the passage too specifically ("Harrison thought he did well on his math test.")

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