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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Names female persons or animals e.g. mother - aunt - sister - doe
Future Tense
Present Tense
Compound Pronouns
Feminine Nouns
2. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant Ex. Toilet - Ladies' Room
Apostrophe
Exclamatory Sentence
Effective Sentence
Euphemism
3. Analogy - cause and effects - compare and contrast and illustration
Nominative Case Noun
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Concrete Nouns
Feminine Nouns
4. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?
Interrogative Sentence
Pragmatics
Relative Pronouns
Past Tense
5. 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
Concrete Nouns
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
MLA
Adjective
6. Personal writing - workplace writing - subject writing - creative writing - persuasive writing - and scholarly writing
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Euphemism
Writing Activities
Verbs
7. 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.
Other sources
Compound Sentence
Classification
Compound Pronouns
8. The writer shows how events and their results are related
location
Cause and Effect
Chronological order
Etymology
9. An interchange of the action started by the verb. There are only two in English: EACH OTHER for an involving two and ONE ANOTHER for an interaction involving three or more. e.g. After the debate - the two opponents shook hands with EACH OTHER.
To cite a book in APA format
Reciprocal Pronouns
English origins
Types of Source Material for Writing
10. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses Ex: When Sara turned seven (dependent c) - her mother planned a birthday party for her (independent c) - and Sara invited everyone in her class (independent c).
Imperative Sentence
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Concrete Nouns
Compound Sentence
11. The writer states the details first and places the topic sentence at the end.
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Climax
To cite a book in APA format
12. A punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Future Perfect Tense
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Question Mark
13. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Effective Sentence
Doublespeak
Tone
Etymology
14. The multiple meanings - either intentional or unintentional - of a word - phrase - sentence - or passage
Classification
Possessive Case Noun
Participle Verb
Ambiguity
15. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house
point of view
Imperative Sentence
Common Nouns
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
16. E.g. floor - desk - computer
Neutral Nouns
Praise
Common Nouns
Ethnolinguistics
17. Modern Language Association
MLA
Intensive Pronouns
Future Tense
Singular Nouns
18. Names more than one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzens - cities - houses - earthquakes -
point of view
Plural Nouns
Pragmatics
Neutral Nouns
19. 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
Past Tense
Past Perfect Tense
APA?
Nominative Case Pronoun
20. The order in which events happen in time.
Chronological order
Ethnolinguistics
Cause and Effect
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
21. The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st - 2nd - 3rd person; omniscient - limited omniscient)
point of view
Complex Sentence
Feminine Nouns
Past Tense
22. Refer back to subject nouns and pronouns - self myself - yourself - himself - herself - itself - etc. e.g. Sam knew she could do it HERSELF.
Chronological order
Reflective Pronouns
Objective Case Pronoun
Euphemism
23. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.
English origins
Psycholinguistics
Past Tense
Independent clause with two phrases
24. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on
Phonetics
Psycholinguistics
Etymology
Reference works
25. The study of meaning in a language
Ambiguity
Exclamatory Sentence
Sematics
Ethnolinguistics
26. The writer shows similarities and differences between two or more subjects
Future Tense
Nominative Case Noun
Comparison
Adjective
27. Study of the history and origin of words
English origins
To cite a book in APA format
Complex Sentence
Etymology
28. Reference works online. Search engines or portals (sites that list many resources and websites) to gather ideas and information.
Internet
Reflective Pronouns
point of view
Nominative Case Pronoun
29. American Psycological Association
Tone
Counterpoint
APA?
Exclamation Point
30. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the
Adjective
Apostrophe
Present Perfect Tense
Common Nouns
31. Pronouns used to ask questions. What - which - who - whom - whose e.g. WHAT is going on? WHO turned off the lights?
Hyphen
Past Perfect Tense
Interrogative Pronouns
Clauses
32. Pronouns combined with self or selves myself - ourselves - yourself yourselves - himself - herself - itself - oneself themselves
Simple Sentence
Compound Pronouns
Chronological order
Possessive Case Noun
33. Referrence works - Internet - Student - created sources and Other sources
Parentheses
Types of Source Material for Writing
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Interrogative Sentence
34. Use to separate the elements in a series (three or more things) - to connect two independent clauses - and to set off introductory elements.
Etymology
Types of Source Material for Writing
Comma
Clauses
35. Used in contractions; to form singular and plural possessives; and to form plurals of letters - numbers - and worlds named as words.
Future Tense
Sematics
Period
Apostrophe
36. A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking. Example: Sam and Tom 'are enjoying' their dessert
Jargon
Dash
Present Tense
Past Perfect Tense
37. Can be direct object - an indirect object - or an object of a preposition
Objective Case Noun
English origins
Neutral Nouns
Imperative Sentence
38. 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.
Student - created sources
Possessive Case Pronoun
Future Perfect Tense
Classification
39. Names male persons or animals e.g. father - uncle - brother - stag
Masculine Nouns
MLA
Effective Sentence
Participle Verb
40. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Example: Yesterday - the cafeteria 'offered' frozen yogurt for dessert.
Style
Past Tense
Nominative Case Noun
Compound subject - compound predicate
41. Angie and Jay dance and win contests.
Student - created sources
Comparison
Compound subject - compound predicate
Future Tense
42. The study of langauge as it relates to society - including race - class - gender and age
Comparison
Sociolinguistics
Present Tense
Indefinite Pronouns
43. 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.
Present Perfect Tense
Phrasal Pronouns
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Simple Sentence
44. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties
Style
Neutral Nouns
Phonetics
Imperative Sentence
45. McMurtry - Larry (1960). <I> Buffalo Girls </I>. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Objective Case Pronoun
Conditional Sentence
Classification
To cite a book in APA format
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.
Exclamatory Sentence
Relative Pronouns
Indefinite Nouns
Sarcasm
47. Expresses action or condition of a person - place - or thing
Objective Case Pronoun
Singular Nouns
Masculine Nouns
Verbs
48. A sentence that communicates strong feeling or ideas. Example: You scared me!
Antecedent
Exclamatory Sentence
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Etymology
49. A short - staccato sentence that provides meaningful emphasis Ex: So be it.
Effective Sentence
Participle Verb
Past Perfect Tense
location
50. 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.
Reciprocal Pronouns
Student - created sources
Antecedent
Ethnolinguistics