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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Refer back to subject nouns and pronouns - self myself - yourself - himself - herself - itself - etc. e.g. Sam knew she could do it HERSELF.
Reflective Pronouns
Nominative Case Pronoun
Demonstrative Pronouns
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
2. A student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell - note cards - graphic organizers - oral histories - and journals
Compound Sentence
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Singular Nouns
Student - created sources
3. Personal writing - workplace writing - subject writing - creative writing - persuasive writing - and scholarly writing
MLA
Other sources
Student - created sources
Writing Activities
4. 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
Transitive Verbs
Dash
Ineffective Sentences
Pragmatics
5. People - places - or things that can be experienced by the senses e.g. bear - Gold Miner Restaurant - basketball
Concrete Nouns
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Indefinite Pronouns
Proper Nouns
6. Modern Language Association
MLA
Reference works
Morphology
Neutral Nouns
7. A sentence that communicates strong feeling or ideas. Example: You scared me!
Conditional Sentence
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Singular Nouns
Exclamatory Sentence
8. A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause.
Future Perfect Tense
Simple Sentence
Sociolinguistics
Gerund
9. The writer states the details first and places the topic sentence at the end.
Climax
Interrogative Sentence
Reflective Pronouns
Internet
10. Names male persons or animals e.g. father - uncle - brother - stag
Masculine Nouns
Etymology
Sarcasm
MLA
11. 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.
Psycholinguistics
Writing Activities
Possessive Pronouns
Imperative Sentence
12. E.g. floor - desk - computer
Ambiguity
Apostrophe
Participle Verb
Neutral Nouns
13. A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking. Example: Sam and Tom 'are enjoying' their dessert
Present Tense
Parentheses
Possessive Pronouns
To cite a book in APA format
14. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message
Common Nouns
Apostrophe
Counterpoint
Simple Pronouns
15. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the
To cite a book in APA format
Simple Sentence
Adjective
Adverbs
16. Names we give to specific people and places. Usually begin with a capital letter. e.g. 'Tony Blair' - 'France' - 'Cardiff'
Parentheses
Other sources
Proper Nouns
Independent clause with two phrases
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.
Indefinite Pronouns
Ethnolinguistics
Future Perfect Tense
Antecedent
18. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Climax
Period
Etymology
Effective Sentence
19. Specialized language of a particular group or culture
Jargon
Past Tense
Infinitive Verb
Possessive Case Noun
20. Names more than one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzens - cities - houses - earthquakes -
English origins
Plural Nouns
Exclamatory Sentence
Reference works
21. McMurtry - Larry (1960). <I> Buffalo Girls </I>. New York: Simon and Schuster.
To cite a book in APA format
Linking or Connecting Verbs
Psycholinguistics
Common Nouns
22. 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.)
Complex Sentence
Brackets
Sematics
Clauses
23. Shows possession or ownership
Types of Source Material for Writing
Chronological order
Possessive Case Noun
Declarative Sentence
24. The multiple meanings - either intentional or unintentional - of a word - phrase - sentence - or passage
Ambiguity
Intensive Pronouns
Tone
Present Perfect Tense
25. Study of the structure of words
Antecedent
Interrogative Sentence
Ambiguity
Morphology
26. Film - art - media and so on
Other sources
Internet
Past Perfect Tense
Pragmatics
27. The study of language as it relates to the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language
Common Nouns
Neutral Nouns
Psycholinguistics
Sarcasm
28. Sentence that makes a statement and tells about a person - place - thing or idea Example: The bird drank from the water fountain.
Sociolinguistics
Compound Pronouns
Declarative Sentence
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
29. Modfies verbs - adjectives - other adverbs - or entire clauses - they often answer of the following questions: How - When - Where - Why - To what extent?
Period
Complex Sentence
Adverbs
Etymology
30. Names a group of people - animals or objects. Example: army - family - club - group - people - children
Personal Pronouns
Internet
Collective Nouns
Abstract Nouns
31. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant Ex. Toilet - Ladies' Room
Phrases
Ineffective Sentences
Linking or Connecting Verbs
Euphemism
32. 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
Reference works
Reciprocal Pronouns
Interrogative Sentence
Dash
33. Study of the history and origin of words
point of view
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Reciprocal Pronouns
Etymology
34. The study of meaning in a language
Praise
Compound Sentence
Sematics
Jargon
35. The writer explains the relationships between concepts or terms
Cause and Effect
Classification
Neutral Nouns
Comparison
36. The analysis of how sounds funtion in a langauge or dialect
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Phonology
APA?
Single Subject - Single Predicate
37. Reference works online. Search engines or portals (sites that list many resources and websites) to gather ideas and information.
Effective Sentence
Possessive Case Noun
Internet
Phonology
38. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Sarcasm
Tone
Conditional Sentence
Relative Pronouns
39. 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
Ambiguity
Internet
Abstract Nouns
40. 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.
Objective Case Pronoun
English origins
Imperative Sentence
Independent clause with two phrases
41. The study of langauge as it relates to society - including race - class - gender and age
Phonology
Present Perfect Tense
Future Tense
Sociolinguistics
42. Verb that can be used as a adjective. Present ends in - ing -----*Past ends in ed.- d -- t -- en -- n (The TERRIFYING movie was rated 'R') Ex. 'singing waiter' and 'baked goods'
Imperative Sentence
Writing Activities
Sociolinguistics
Participle Verb
43. 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
Chronological order
Transitive Verbs
Brackets
Style
44. The writer describes a person - place - or thing - organizing the description in a logical manner
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Euphemism
location
45. The writer states the topic sentence first followed by details
Illustration
Other sources
Compound Sentence
Student - created sources
46. 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).
Compound subject - compound predicate
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Chronological order
Pragmatics
47. 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
Simple Sentence
Intransitive Verbs
Effective Sentence
Student - created sources
48. A punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
Common Nouns
Question Mark
Reference works
Euphemism
49. Can be a direct object - an indirect object - or an object of the preposition - it - them etc.
Objective Case Pronoun
Parentheses
Question Mark
Doublespeak
50. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Example: Yesterday - the cafeteria 'offered' frozen yogurt for dessert.
Simple Pronouns
Declarative Sentence
Clauses
Past Tense