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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. American Psycological Association
Abstract Nouns
APA?
Parentheses
Independent clause with two phrases
2. A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause.
Antecedent
Syntax
Simple Sentence
Interrogative Sentence
3. A sentence that communicates strong feeling or ideas. Example: You scared me!
Exclamatory Sentence
Intensive Pronouns
How to site for a book in MLA format
Past Tense
4. Gender nouns that are nonspecific (i.e. chairperson - politician - president - professor - flight attendant) Example: Politican - doctor - principal - teacher - student -
Objective Case Pronoun
Indefinite Nouns
Other sources
Compound/ Complex Sentence
5. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Example: Yesterday - the cafeteria 'offered' frozen yogurt for dessert.
Past Tense
Intensive Pronouns
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Parentheses
6. The writer describes a person - place - or thing - organizing the description in a logical manner
Feminine Nouns
Dash
Future Tense
location
7. 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
Nominative Case Pronoun
Style
Possessive Pronouns
Pragmatics
8. Names male persons or animals e.g. father - uncle - brother - stag
Antecedent
Phonetics
Masculine Nouns
Intensive Pronouns
9. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on
Reference works
Simple Sentence
Possessive Case Noun
location
10. A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking. Example: Sam and Tom 'are enjoying' their dessert
Present Tense
Feminine Nouns
Complex Sentence
Nominative Case Noun
11. Names female persons or animals e.g. mother - aunt - sister - doe
Internet
Feminine Nouns
location
Exclamation Point
12. Can be a direct object - an indirect object - or an object of the preposition - it - them etc.
Intensive Pronouns
Proper Nouns
Objective Case Pronoun
Jargon
13. The study of langauge as it relates to society - including race - class - gender and age
Sociolinguistics
Clauses
location
Exclamation Point
14. These help the main word verb describe action that happened in the past - is happening in the present - or will happen in the future; have - had - has - could - will have - will - shall - am - is
Present Tense
Sarcasm
Objective Case Noun
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
15. A punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation; strong feeling
Jargon
Other sources
Plural Nouns
Exclamation Point
16. Marks
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Indefinite Nouns
Brackets
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
17. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal the truth
Praise
Doublespeak
Intensive Pronouns
Linking or Connecting Verbs
18. The study of meaning in a language
Exclamation Point
Etymology
Concrete Nouns
Sematics
19. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties
Nominative Case Noun
Adverbs
Infinitive Verb
Phonetics
20. Connect the subject and the subject complement (an adjective - noun - or noun equivalent) Example: It 'was' rainy. Erin 'is' happy.
Transitive Verbs
Adjective
Linking or Connecting Verbs
Clauses
21. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house
Comparison
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Common Nouns
Objective Case Pronoun
22. A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. Example: If you build it - they will come.
Euphemism
Objective Case Noun
Conditional Sentence
Clauses
23. Names a group of people - animals or objects. Example: army - family - club - group - people - children
Conditional Sentence
Collective Nouns
Chronological order
Tone
24. A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past. e.g. Eline said that she 'had been' to Lake Tahoe many times.
Past Perfect Tense
To cite a book in APA format
Compound Pronouns
Linking or Connecting Verbs
25. 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.
Syntax
Proper Nouns
Relative Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
26. The writer explains the relationships between concepts or terms
Psycholinguistics
Praise
Illustration
Classification
27. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Possessive Case Pronoun
Period
Intensive Pronouns
28. A perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future e.g. By this time next year - Stephen 'will have completed' all the course work for his HVAC certification.
Counterpoint
Future Perfect Tense
To cite a book in APA format
Antecedent
29. The order in which events happen in time.
Plural Nouns
Exclamatory Sentence
Past Tense
Chronological order
30. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message
Feminine Nouns
Masculine Nouns
Counterpoint
Pragmatics
31. McMurtry - Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York: Simon and Schuster - 1960.
Antecedent
Hyphen
How to site for a book in MLA format
Phonology
32. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?
Interrogative Sentence
Ineffective Sentences
Neutral Nouns
Rhetoric organizational patterns
33. People - places - or things that can be experienced by the senses e.g. bear - Gold Miner Restaurant - basketball
Dash
Reflective Pronouns
Brackets
Concrete Nouns
34. E.g. floor - desk - computer
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Abstract Nouns
Feminine Nouns
Neutral Nouns
35. Can be the subject of a clause - I - you - he - she - it - we - they - is a predicate nominative if it follows a 'be' verb or another linking verb and renames the subject
Possessive Case Pronoun
MLA
Nominative Case Pronoun
Compound subject - single predicate
36. Modfies verbs - adjectives - other adverbs - or entire clauses - they often answer of the following questions: How - When - Where - Why - To what extent?
Etymology
Adverbs
Objective Case Pronoun
Tone
37. Study of the history and origin of words
Feminine Nouns
Brackets
Nominative Case Pronoun
Etymology
38. McMurtry - Larry (1960). <I> Buffalo Girls </I>. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Cause and Effect
Common Nouns
To cite a book in APA format
39. The writer shows how events and their results are related
Collective Nouns
Reciprocal Pronouns
Masculine Nouns
Cause and Effect
40. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the
Effective Sentence
Ambiguity
Praise
Adjective
41. Study of the structure of words
Question Mark
Morphology
Intensive Pronouns
Masculine Nouns
42. 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.
Compound/ Complex Sentence
English origins
Question Mark
Imperative Sentence
43. 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
Ambiguity
Present Perfect Tense
Effective Sentence
Dash
44. Expresses action or condition of a person - place - or thing
Verbs
Personal Pronouns
Exclamation Point
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
45. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.
Dash
MLA
Independent clause with two phrases
Etymology
46. Used in contractions; to form singular and plural possessives; and to form plurals of letters - numbers - and worlds named as words.
Parentheses
Abstract Nouns
location
Apostrophe
47. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Comma
Tone
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence
48. Group of words - describes person/thing - performs action - contains subject & predicate
Clauses
English origins
Euphemism
Intransitive Verbs
49. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant Ex. Toilet - Ladies' Room
Euphemism
Doublespeak
Compound Pronouns
Past Tense
50. Show possession or ownership. - apostrophes NOT used - my - his - her
Intensive Pronouns
Possessive Case Pronoun
Reference works
Plural Nouns