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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric

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1. American Psycological Association






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






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






4. Gender nouns that are nonspecific (i.e. chairperson - politician - president - professor - flight attendant) Example: Politican - doctor - principal - teacher - student -






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






6. The writer describes a person - place - or thing - organizing the description in a logical manner






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






8. Names male persons or animals e.g. father - uncle - brother - stag






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






10. A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking. Example: Sam and Tom 'are enjoying' their dessert






11. Names female persons or animals e.g. mother - aunt - sister - doe






12. Can be a direct object - an indirect object - or an object of the preposition - it - them etc.






13. The study of langauge as it relates to society - including race - class - gender and age






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






15. A punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation; strong feeling






16. Marks






17. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal the truth






18. The study of meaning in a language






19. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties






20. Connect the subject and the subject complement (an adjective - noun - or noun equivalent) Example: It 'was' rainy. Erin 'is' happy.






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






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






23. Names a group of people - animals or objects. Example: army - family - club - group - people - children






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.






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.






26. The writer explains the relationships between concepts or terms






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






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.






29. The order in which events happen in time.






30. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message






31. McMurtry - Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York: Simon and Schuster - 1960.






32. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?






33. People - places - or things that can be experienced by the senses e.g. bear - Gold Miner Restaurant - basketball






34. E.g. floor - desk - computer






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






36. Modfies verbs - adjectives - other adverbs - or entire clauses - they often answer of the following questions: How - When - Where - Why - To what extent?






37. Study of the history and origin of words






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






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






40. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the






41. Study of the structure of words






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.






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






44. Expresses action or condition of a person - place - or thing






45. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.






46. Used in contractions; to form singular and plural possessives; and to form plurals of letters - numbers - and worlds named as words.






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






48. Group of words - describes person/thing - performs action - contains subject & predicate






49. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant Ex. Toilet - Ladies' Room






50. Show possession or ownership. - apostrophes NOT used - my - his - her