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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The multiple meanings - either intentional or unintentional - of a word - phrase - sentence - or passage
Gerund
Adjective
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Ambiguity
2. 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.
Reciprocal Pronouns
Simple Pronouns
Declarative Sentence
Past Tense
3. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?
Indefinite Pronouns
Objective Case Noun
Classification
Interrogative Sentence
4. Name only one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzen - city - house - earthquake
Reciprocal Pronouns
Dash
Singular Nouns
Declarative Sentence
5. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - publishing and evaluating
Past Tense
Phrasal Pronouns
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Complex Sentence
6. The order in which events happen in time.
Period
Past Tense
Chronological order
Dash
7. A student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell - note cards - graphic organizers - oral histories - and journals
Objective Case Pronoun
Student - created sources
Effective Sentence
Future Perfect Tense
8. Names a group of people - animals or objects. Example: army - family - club - group - people - children
Singular Nouns
Simple Sentence
Collective Nouns
Phonology
9. McMurtry - Larry (1960). <I> Buffalo Girls </I>. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Infinitive Verb
Relative Pronouns
To cite a book in APA format
Indefinite Pronouns
10. Film - art - media and so on
Intransitive Verbs
Compound Pronouns
Other sources
How to site for a book in MLA format
11. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Period
Adverbs
Climax
Past Tense
12. Groups of related words that operate as a single part of speech - such as a verb - verbal - prepositional - appositive - or absolute
Clauses
Nominative Case Pronoun
Phrases
Complex Sentence
13. Show possession or ownership my - mine - your(s) - his - her(s) - its - our(s) - their(s) - whose e.g. If this book isn't HERS - then it must be MINE.
Possessive Pronouns
Internet
Future Tense
Nominative Case Noun
14. Personal writing - workplace writing - subject writing - creative writing - persuasive writing - and scholarly writing
Future Tense
Exclamatory Sentence
Student - created sources
Writing Activities
15. 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.
Reflective Pronouns
Present Perfect Tense
location
Internet
16. Refer to people or animals - I - you - he - she - it - we - they - me - him - her - us - them e.g. THEY told US that THEY were going to meet HER at the mall.
Personal Pronouns
Classification
How to site for a book in MLA format
Possessive Case Noun
17. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding' - memory - peace -
Ineffective Sentences
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Abstract Nouns
Phonology
18. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Common Nouns
Tone
Transitive Verbs
Compound subject - compound predicate
19. A punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
Sociolinguistics
Climax
Proper Nouns
Question Mark
20. A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past. e.g. Eline said that she 'had been' to Lake Tahoe many times.
Ambiguity
Future Tense
Sarcasm
Past Perfect Tense
21. 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.
Plural Nouns
Relative Pronouns
Apostrophe
Doublespeak
22. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future Example: Tomorrow - Jan 'will bring' her lunch from home.
Future Tense
Infinitive Verb
Present Tense
Reflective Pronouns
23. Refer back to subject nouns and pronouns - self myself - yourself - himself - herself - itself - etc. e.g. Sam knew she could do it HERSELF.
Interrogative Sentence
Reflective Pronouns
Intensive Pronouns
Independent clause with two phrases
24. Each other - one another
Cause and Effect
Student - created sources
Phrasal Pronouns
Objective Case Pronoun
25. The writer describes a person - place - or thing - organizing the description in a logical manner
location
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Intransitive Verbs
Sematics
26. A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. Ex: If you want to stay healthy(dependent c.) - you must choose your food carefully(independent c.)
Morphology
Complex Sentence
Nominative Case Noun
Brackets
27. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sarcasm
APA?
Jargon
Objective Case Pronoun
28. Specialized language of a particular group or culture
Participle Verb
Exclamation Point
Jargon
Past Perfect Tense
29. People - places - or things that can be experienced by the senses e.g. bear - Gold Miner Restaurant - basketball
Linking or Connecting Verbs
Brackets
Simple Pronouns
Concrete Nouns
30. Every language as a dialect of an older communication form. Example: English two main dialects - British English and American English and they are close political allies
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Period
Exclamatory Sentence
Etymology
31. Refer to specific people - places - or things this - that - these - those e.g. Which skates are ligher - THESE or THOSE?
Other sources
Hyphen
Demonstrative Pronouns
Praise
32. McMurtry - Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York: Simon and Schuster - 1960.
How to site for a book in MLA format
Plural Nouns
Adverbs
Pragmatics
33. Angela dances.
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Effective Sentence
Reflective Pronouns
Phonology
34. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on
Reference works
Demonstrative Pronouns
Dash
Masculine Nouns
35. The study of the structure of sentences
Concrete Nouns
Syntax
Masculine Nouns
Parentheses
36. A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. Example: If you build it - they will come.
Conditional Sentence
Comma
Adverbs
Ethnolinguistics
37. The writer states the details first and places the topic sentence at the end.
Complex Sentence
Climax
Participle Verb
Sociolinguistics
38. I - you - he - she - it we - they - who - what
Plural Nouns
Past Tense
Simple Pronouns
Linking or Connecting Verbs
39. Names female persons or animals e.g. mother - aunt - sister - doe
Abstract Nouns
Feminine Nouns
Indefinite Pronouns
APA?
40. Modern Language Association
Possessive Case Pronoun
MLA
Tone
Interrogative Sentence
41. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal the truth
Present Tense
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Question Mark
Doublespeak
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.
Future Tense
Masculine Nouns
English origins
Proper Nouns
43. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message
Counterpoint
Possessive Case Pronoun
Concrete Nouns
Interrogative Sentence
44. A short - staccato sentence that provides meaningful emphasis Ex: So be it.
Common Nouns
Phonology
Effective Sentence
Possessive Pronouns
45. Names we give to specific people and places. Usually begin with a capital letter. e.g. 'Tony Blair' - 'France' - 'Cardiff'
Transitive Verbs
Relative Pronouns
Counterpoint
Proper Nouns
46. The analysis of how sounds funtion in a langauge or dialect
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Phonology
Parentheses
Period
47. American Psycological Association
APA?
Abstract Nouns
Jargon
Ethnolinguistics
48. Analogy - cause and effects - compare and contrast and illustration
Morphology
Common Nouns
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Possessive Pronouns
49. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.
Ethnolinguistics
Praise
Interrogative Pronouns
Independent clause with two phrases
50. 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
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Phonetics
Counterpoint
Objective Case Pronoun