Expository Essay Body Paragraphs

What helps your essay flow easily to the next idea?

• Conclusion

• Facts

• Similes

• Transitions

An expository essay consists of

• Rising action, climax, and falling action

• Introduction, body, and conclusion

• Stanzas

• None of the above

What are the three paragraphs in the middle of an essay called?

• The Body.

• The Introduction.

• The conclusion.

• Supporting Details. 

How many paragraphs in an explanatory essay?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

In each body paragraph you should have a topic sentence and __________.

Choose all that apply.

• Transition words of phrases

• Thesis Statement

• Text Evidence

• Explanation

In a body paragraph after you've stated your claim or idea from the thesis statement, what needs to happen next?

• There needs to be a position statement.

• There needs to be a conclusion.

• There needs to be a thesis statement.

• There needs to be an example to explain why the claim or idea is valid.

In what order should body paragraphs be written?

• Reason, Connection, Evidence, sum it up

• Thesis Statement, Evidence, Connection, sum it up

• Topic Sentence, Evidence, Connection, sum it up

• Thesis Statement, Connection, Evidence, sum it up

How do you write body paragraph #1?

• Reason #1, Detail, elaborate, detail, elaborate, transition summary

• Reason #2, detail, elaborate, detail, transition summary

• Reason #1, detail, detail, transition summary

• Reason #1, detail, elaborate, transition summary

The "sum it up" sentence comes after the commentary in each body paragraph

• True

• False

Words like "first, next, last, in conclusion" that give order to your paragraph.

• Transitions

• Topic Sentence

• Elaboration

• Concluding sentence