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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
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1. Technique commonly used by poets in which the sound of a word imitates a natural sound






2. A story told in the words of one person






3. Word families






4. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






5. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'






6. Speech sound produced by partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any various constrictions of speech organs (not vowels)






7. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






8. Specific to general conclusion - reliable or unreliable - used to discover something new






9. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






10. Speech sound created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity - usually forming the most prominent and central sound of a syllable (A - E - I - O - U - Y)






11. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






12. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






13. Used to describe one thing in terms of something else - not intended to be taken literally






14. Planning - brainstorming - mapping/clustering/webbing - prior knowledge - prewriting - proofreading - drafting - writing - shaping - revising - editing -






15. Limited: inside the mind of one character - unlimited: third person shifting from one person to another - omniscient: all knowing multiple focal points of varying depths






16. Action






17. Smallest sound unit of speech - /b/ in book - segments used to differentiate between meanings of words - required understanding of phonological rules of the language for knowing how to produce words






18. Strategy to teach reading and spelling that involves a relationship between sounds and written symbols - study and use of sound/spelling correspondences to identify written words






19. Means to stand still






20. Extract and restate that material's main message - literal level






21. English - written words made up of letters that match sounds heard when spoken - corresponding to each other






22. One person talking with others around






23. Long poems that describe a deed of heroes in battle or conflicts between human beings and natural and divine forces






24. Use pitch syntactically






25. A poet's use of words to create mental pictures or images - that communicate experience






26. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






27. Does not use like or as - direct comparison of one thing spoken of as though it were something else






28. Demonstrates truth






29. Analysis & study of meanings of words - phrases - and sentences - useful strategy for decoding words used in sentences






30. Appeal of emotion






31. Person noun - takes a nouns place 'I - you - they - her - its - ours'






32. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






33. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






34. Appeal of logic or reason






35. Show high probability of being true






36. Understanding that phonemes (sounds) make up spoken words - including the ability to blend - segment and manipulate phonemes in spoken words - auditory without the inclusion or use of print






37. System and pattern of speech sounds - knowledge of sound patterns is part of the grammar since you create 'meaningful units'






38. False impression






39. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






40. Words spelled differently that sound alike - to too two






41. Adds to the meaning of a verb - another adverb - adj. - or whole sentence. 'I'll finish 'in a minute''






42. New vowel sounds produced by two vowels (OY in boy - I in buy)






43. Examination of various ways that words combine to create meaning - study of how sentences are formed and the pattern or structure of word order in sentences






44. 2 different forms which are identical in every way except for 1 sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string (sink - zink - pink/ hit - hat - hot






45. Conventions - lft - rt - top - bottom - spaces between words -






46. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






47. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






48. Judge the quality of the material on its own and as holds up in your synthesis or it with related material






49. Logos - pathos - ethos






50. Left to right - visual clues recognized