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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric

Subjects : cset, english
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1. Style - Tone - Point of View - Sarcasm - Counterpoint and Praise






2. Names more than one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzens - cities - houses - earthquakes -






3. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.






4. Verbs that take a direct object - words or word groups that complete the meaning of a verb by naming a reciver of the action Ex. Daniel (subject) threw (transitive verb) the ball (direct object).






5. E.g. floor - desk - computer






6. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - publishing and evaluating






7. Name only one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzen - city - house - earthquake






8. The multiple meanings - either intentional or unintentional - of a word - phrase - sentence - or passage






9. McMurtry - Larry (1960). <I> Buffalo Girls </I>. New York: Simon and Schuster.






10. The writer shows how events and their results are related






11. A sentence that communicates strong feeling or ideas. Example: You scared me!






12. A punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question






13. A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. Example: If you build it - they will come.






14. A student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell - note cards - graphic organizers - oral histories - and journals






15. American Psycological Association






16. A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses - often joined by one or more conjunctions Ex: Perry wants to stay in shape - so he rides his bicycle for exercise.






17. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message






18. The writer states the details first and places the topic sentence at the end.






19. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future Example: Tomorrow - Jan 'will bring' her lunch from home.






20. Groups of related words that operate as a single part of speech - such as a verb - verbal - prepositional - appositive - or absolute






21. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations






22. A punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text






23. The study of language as it relates to the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language






24. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Example: Yesterday - the cafeteria 'offered' frozen yogurt for dessert.






25. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning






26. Anglo - Saxon - which is a dialect of West Germanic. Half of the words in English come from French. Scientific words in English often have Greek or Latin roots.






27. Film - art - media and so on






28. The analysis of how sounds funtion in a langauge or dialect






29. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






30. A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period






31. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on






32. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers. Each pronoun must agree with its antecedent in person and number. e.g. The BOYS are going to the game this weekend. THEY need to buy tickets.






33. Angela and Jay dance.






34. Sentence that makes a statement and tells about a person - place - thing or idea Example: The bird drank from the water fountain.






35. When the action begins in the past but concludes in the present e.g. Tom 'has ordered' the same thing for lunch every day this month.






36. Pronouns combined with self or selves myself - ourselves - yourself yourselves - himself - herself - itself - oneself themselves






37. Use to separate the elements in a series (three or more things) - to connect two independent clauses - and to set off introductory elements.






38. The study of meaning in a language






39. A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause.






40. Study of the structure of words






41. Every language as a dialect of an older communication form. Example: English two main dialects - British English and American English and they are close political allies






42. Use of positive messages to recongnize or influence others






43. Show possession or ownership my - mine - your(s) - his - her(s) - its - our(s) - their(s) - whose e.g. If this book isn't HERS - then it must be MINE.






44. Refer to specific people - places - or things this - that - these - those e.g. Which skates are ligher - THESE or THOSE?






45. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house






46. Joins a dependent clause to an independent clause (who - whom - whose - which - that and all of the W's + ever) e.g. The person THAT gave you the book is the boy WHO likes me.






47. Pronouns used to ask questions. What - which - who - whom - whose e.g. WHAT is going on? WHO turned off the lights?






48. Specialized language of a particular group or culture






49. The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st - 2nd - 3rd person; omniscient - limited omniscient)






50. The writer explains the relationships between concepts or terms