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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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1. 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
Masculine Nouns
Jargon
Simple Sentence
2. Analogy - cause and effects - compare and contrast and illustration
Phonetics
Etymology
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Period
3. Names female persons or animals e.g. mother - aunt - sister - doe
Compound Pronouns
Feminine Nouns
Comparison
Plural Nouns
4. A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. Example: If you build it - they will come.
Illustration
Conditional Sentence
Possessive Pronouns
Reflective Pronouns
5. The study of meaning in a language
Common Nouns
Sematics
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Jargon
6. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house
Praise
Common Nouns
Past Perfect Tense
Present Tense
7. A punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation; strong feeling
Collective Nouns
Types of Source Material for Writing
Exclamation Point
Other sources
8. I - you - he - she - it we - they - who - what
Simple Pronouns
Ethnolinguistics
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Classification
9. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the
Complex Sentence
Objective Case Pronoun
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Adjective
10. A short - staccato sentence that provides meaningful emphasis Ex: So be it.
Question Mark
Sarcasm
Effective Sentence
Writing Activities
11. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant Ex. Toilet - Ladies' Room
Euphemism
Exclamation Point
Tone
location
12. Used in contractions; to form singular and plural possessives; and to form plurals of letters - numbers - and worlds named as words.
Apostrophe
Cause and Effect
Neutral Nouns
Intransitive Verbs
13. Use around information that does not fit into the flow of the sentence - but that you want to include
Indefinite Nouns
Brackets
Parentheses
Ambiguity
14. 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
Neutral Nouns
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Intransitive Verbs
location
15. 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.
Climax
Adverbs
Possessive Pronouns
Participle Verb
16. The study of the structure of sentences
Syntax
To cite a book in APA format
Indefinite Nouns
Compound subject - single predicate
17. 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.
Future Perfect Tense
English origins
Present Tense
Doublespeak
18. Names a group of people - animals or objects. Example: army - family - club - group - people - children
Interrogative Sentence
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Collective Nouns
Proper Nouns
19. Angie and Jay dance and win contests.
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Psycholinguistics
Sematics
Compound subject - compound predicate
20. 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.)
MLA
Possessive Pronouns
Complex Sentence
Declarative Sentence
21. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding' - memory - peace -
Parentheses
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Praise
Abstract Nouns
22. McMurtry - Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York: Simon and Schuster - 1960.
Style
Adjective
Concrete Nouns
How to site for a book in MLA format
23. American Psycological Association
Personal Pronouns
Feminine Nouns
APA?
Apostrophe
24. 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
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Style
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Euphemism
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.
Reference works
Relative Pronouns
Intransitive Verbs
Effective Sentence
26. The writer shows how events and their results are related
Gerund
Cause and Effect
To cite a book in APA format
Neutral Nouns
27. A verb ending in - ing and functions as a noun; example: ESTIMATING is an important mathematics skill. SWIMMING is Alice's favourite form of exercise.
Climax
Personal Pronouns
Gerund
Dash
28. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?
Interrogative Sentence
Illustration
Collective Nouns
Complex Sentence
29. Modern Language Association
Compound subject - single predicate
Euphemism
Illustration
MLA
30. Name only one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzen - city - house - earthquake
Nominative Case Noun
Transitive Verbs
Cause and Effect
Singular Nouns
31. Expresses action or condition of a person - place - or thing
Syntax
Linking or Connecting Verbs
Interrogative Pronouns
Verbs
32. A sentence that gives a command Example: Please take the dog out for a walk.
Objective Case Noun
Imperative Sentence
Possessive Pronouns
Participle Verb
33. Reference works online. Search engines or portals (sites that list many resources and websites) to gather ideas and information.
Parentheses
Student - created sources
Proper Nouns
Internet
34. The writer explains the relationships between concepts or terms
Classification
Proper Nouns
Neutral Nouns
Climax
35. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on
Reference works
Compound Sentence
Future Perfect Tense
Interrogative Pronouns
36. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future Example: Tomorrow - Jan 'will bring' her lunch from home.
Reference works
Exclamation Point
Future Tense
Question Mark
37. Pronouns used to ask questions. What - which - who - whom - whose e.g. WHAT is going on? WHO turned off the lights?
Interrogative Pronouns
Simple Pronouns
Compound subject - single predicate
Intensive Pronouns
38. 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
Participle Verb
Etymology
Ineffective Sentences
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
39. 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
Imperative Sentence
Objective Case Noun
Dash
Present Perfect Tense
40. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Other sources
Types of Source Material for Writing
Period
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
41. Film - art - media and so on
location
Past Tense
Parentheses
Other sources
42. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.
Independent clause with two phrases
Common Nouns
Compound Pronouns
MLA
43. Can be the subject of a clause or the predicate noun when it follows a linking verb e.g. 'be'
Nominative Case Pronoun
Phrasal Pronouns
Linking or Connecting Verbs
Nominative Case Noun
44. McMurtry - Larry (1960). <I> Buffalo Girls </I>. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Indefinite Pronouns
To cite a book in APA format
Interrogative Pronouns
Sarcasm
45. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - publishing and evaluating
Conditional Sentence
Future Perfect Tense
Phrases
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
46. Referrence works - Internet - Student - created sources and Other sources
Sarcasm
Types of Source Material for Writing
Relative Pronouns
Abstract Nouns
47. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning
Pragmatics
Abstract Nouns
Participle Verb
Future Tense
48. The study of language as it relates to the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language
Psycholinguistics
Doublespeak
location
Style
49. 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).
Transitive Verbs
Apostrophe
Jargon
point of view
50. Names male persons or animals e.g. father - uncle - brother - stag
Objective Case Pronoun
Internet
Masculine Nouns
Common Nouns