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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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1. A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause.
Possessive Case Pronoun
Past Tense
Intensive Pronouns
Simple Sentence
2. A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking. Example: Sam and Tom 'are enjoying' their dessert
Compound subject - compound predicate
Sociolinguistics
Morphology
Present Tense
3. The writer shows similarities and differences between two or more subjects
Doublespeak
Types of Source Material for Writing
Comparison
Possessive Case Pronoun
4. Names female persons or animals e.g. mother - aunt - sister - doe
Feminine Nouns
Tone
Jargon
Common Nouns
5. Verbs that do not require an object to express their meaning - the action they express is complete by itself - 'eat' 'Jump' e.g. The cat napped
Interrogative Sentence
Student - created sources
Objective Case Pronoun
Intransitive Verbs
6. Reflexive pronouns that emphasize a noun or another pronoun e.g. Jon HIMSELF - she HERSELF - the group THEMSELVES We OURSELVES formed the new drama club.
Future Tense
Sarcasm
Intensive Pronouns
Possessive Case Noun
7. Used in contractions; to form singular and plural possessives; and to form plurals of letters - numbers - and worlds named as words.
Apostrophe
Possessive Case Pronoun
Counterpoint
Phrasal Pronouns
8. Angela dances.
Internet
Compound Pronouns
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Reference works
9. People - places - or things that can be experienced by the senses e.g. bear - Gold Miner Restaurant - basketball
Concrete Nouns
Intensive Pronouns
Effective Sentence
Morphology
10. Sentence that makes a statement and tells about a person - place - thing or idea Example: The bird drank from the water fountain.
Praise
Sematics
Phonetics
Declarative Sentence
11. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Simple Pronouns
Apostrophe
Counterpoint
Period
12. 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
Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Style
Dash
13. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant Ex. Toilet - Ladies' Room
Sarcasm
Euphemism
Jargon
MLA
14. 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).
Present Tense
Psycholinguistics
Transitive Verbs
Counterpoint
15. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on
Brackets
Compound Sentence
Reference works
Antecedent
16. A student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell - note cards - graphic organizers - oral histories - and journals
Pragmatics
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Future Tense
Student - created sources
17. Style - Tone - Point of View - Sarcasm - Counterpoint and Praise
Exclamation Point
Ineffective Sentences
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Demonstrative Pronouns
18. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the
Jargon
Past Tense
Adjective
Collective Nouns
19. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Future Tense
Tone
Transitive Verbs
Common Nouns
20. Use around information that does not fit into the flow of the sentence - but that you want to include
Present Tense
Parentheses
Proper Nouns
Feminine Nouns
21. Name only one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzen - city - house - earthquake
Concrete Nouns
Possessive Case Noun
Types of Source Material for Writing
Singular Nouns
22. Expresses action or condition of a person - place - or thing
Complex Sentence
Verbs
Future Perfect Tense
Ethnolinguistics
23. Specialized language of a particular group or culture
Possessive Case Pronoun
Declarative Sentence
Personal Pronouns
Jargon
24. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message
Climax
location
Plural Nouns
Counterpoint
25. The analysis of how sounds funtion in a langauge or dialect
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Phonology
Ambiguity
Verbs
26. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding' - memory - peace -
Masculine Nouns
Possessive Pronouns
Exclamation Point
Abstract Nouns
27. Film - art - media and so on
Plural Nouns
Other sources
Gerund
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28. A sentence that communicates strong feeling or ideas. Example: You scared me!
Hyphen
Exclamatory Sentence
Comparison
Writing Activities
29. The study of langauge as it relates to society - including race - class - gender and age
Proper Nouns
Types of Source Material for Writing
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Sociolinguistics
30. 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.
location
Present Perfect Tense
Participle Verb
Simple Pronouns
31. Groups of related words that operate as a single part of speech - such as a verb - verbal - prepositional - appositive - or absolute
Proper Nouns
Syntax
Phrases
Brackets
32. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house
Common Nouns
Pragmatics
Neutral Nouns
Single Subject - Single Predicate
33. A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. Example: If you build it - they will come.
APA?
Syntax
Conditional Sentence
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
34. Use to separate the elements in a series (three or more things) - to connect two independent clauses - and to set off introductory elements.
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Comma
Interrogative Pronouns
point of view
35. Refer to specific people - places - or things this - that - these - those e.g. Which skates are ligher - THESE or THOSE?
Demonstrative Pronouns
Antecedent
English origins
Indefinite Nouns
36. Study of the history and origin of words
Ineffective Sentences
Antecedent
Etymology
Comparison
37. McMurtry - Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York: Simon and Schuster - 1960.
Cause and Effect
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Period
Internet
38. Angela and Jay dance.
Compound subject - single predicate
Cause and Effect
Illustration
Future Perfect Tense
39. The writer shows how events and their results are related
Transitive Verbs
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Cause and Effect
Exclamatory Sentence
40. Referrence works - Internet - Student - created sources and Other sources
Types of Source Material for Writing
Comparison
Pragmatics
Feminine Nouns
41. Unnatural language - such as cliches and inappropriate jargon - Nonstandard language or unparallel construction - Errors such as disagreement between pronouns and referent - Short - stilted sentences; run - on sentenences; or sentence fragments
Types of Source Material for Writing
Compound Sentence
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Ineffective Sentences
42. Gender nouns that are nonspecific (i.e. chairperson - politician - president - professor - flight attendant) Example: Politican - doctor - principal - teacher - student -
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Collective Nouns
Etymology
Indefinite Nouns
43. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Example: Yesterday - the cafeteria 'offered' frozen yogurt for dessert.
Linking or Connecting Verbs
point of view
Past Tense
Parentheses
44. Can be the subject of a clause or the predicate noun when it follows a linking verb e.g. 'be'
Nominative Case Noun
Participle Verb
APA?
Apostrophe
45. Can be a direct object - an indirect object - or an object of the preposition - it - them etc.
Jargon
Comma
Possessive Pronouns
Objective Case Pronoun
46. The writer states the topic sentence first followed by details
Indefinite Nouns
Illustration
Etymology
Gerund
47. Names we give to specific people and places. Usually begin with a capital letter. e.g. 'Tony Blair' - 'France' - 'Cardiff'
Student - created sources
Feminine Nouns
Proper Nouns
Pragmatics
48. The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st - 2nd - 3rd person; omniscient - limited omniscient)
Neutral Nouns
Common Nouns
Pragmatics
point of view
49. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?
Exclamation Point
Adverbs
Objective Case Pronoun
Interrogative Sentence
50. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning
Declarative Sentence
Pragmatics
Brackets
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