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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.
Interrogative Pronouns
Apostrophe
Transitive Verbs
Reflective Pronouns
2. Style - Tone - Point of View - Sarcasm - Counterpoint and Praise
Counterpoint
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Conditional Sentence
point of view
3. The study of language as it relates to culture - frequently associated with minorty linguistic groups within the larger culture
Complex Sentence
Ethnolinguistics
Phrasal Pronouns
Nominative Case Noun
4. A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause.
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
Simple Sentence
Style
5. Groups of related words that operate as a single part of speech - such as a verb - verbal - prepositional - appositive - or absolute
Euphemism
Verbs
Phrases
Writing Activities
6. Analogy - cause and effects - compare and contrast and illustration
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Psycholinguistics
Hyphen
7. 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
Phonology
Phrases
Sarcasm
8. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties
Adverbs
Phonetics
Question Mark
Brackets
9. 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
Common Nouns
Intransitive Verbs
Gerund
Brackets
10. A punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
Past Perfect Tense
Student - created sources
Adverbs
Question Mark
11. The writer describes a person - place - or thing - organizing the description in a logical manner
Common Nouns
Present Tense
Present Perfect Tense
location
12. 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.
Present Tense
Antecedent
Concrete Nouns
Comma
13. 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.
Simple Sentence
Relative Pronouns
Intensive Pronouns
Proper Nouns
14. Expresses action or condition of a person - place - or thing
Nominative Case Noun
Cause and Effect
Collective Nouns
Verbs
15. A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. Example: If you build it - they will come.
Sociolinguistics
Period
Conditional Sentence
Dash
16. Gender nouns that are nonspecific (i.e. chairperson - politician - president - professor - flight attendant) Example: Politican - doctor - principal - teacher - student -
Indefinite Nouns
Declarative Sentence
Climax
Feminine Nouns
17. 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.
Linking or Connecting Verbs
English origins
Internet
Indefinite Nouns
18. 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
Linking or Connecting Verbs
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Future Tense
Sarcasm
19. Each other - one another
Phrasal Pronouns
Phrases
Masculine Nouns
Morphology
20. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on
Exclamatory Sentence
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Future Perfect Tense
Reference works
21. A sentence that communicates strong feeling or ideas. Example: You scared me!
Ambiguity
Interrogative Sentence
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Exclamatory Sentence
22. The writer explains the relationships between concepts or terms
point of view
MLA
Morphology
Classification
23. Group of words - describes person/thing - performs action - contains subject & predicate
Clauses
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Intensive Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
24. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Present Tense
Reflective Pronouns
Tone
Exclamatory Sentence
25. Pronouns combined with self or selves myself - ourselves - yourself yourselves - himself - herself - itself - oneself themselves
Compound Pronouns
Compound subject - single predicate
Plural Nouns
Exclamatory Sentence
26. A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking. Example: Sam and Tom 'are enjoying' their dessert
Present Tense
Apostrophe
Simple Sentence
Internet
27. Used in contractions; to form singular and plural possessives; and to form plurals of letters - numbers - and worlds named as words.
English origins
Classification
Ineffective Sentences
Apostrophe
28. Name only one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzen - city - house - earthquake
Future Perfect Tense
Question Mark
APA?
Singular Nouns
29. Angie and Jay dance and win contests.
Compound subject - compound predicate
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Sociolinguistics
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
30. 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.
Ambiguity
Compound Sentence
Phonetics
Internet
31. Personal writing - workplace writing - subject writing - creative writing - persuasive writing - and scholarly writing
Psycholinguistics
Tone
Writing Activities
Reflective Pronouns
32. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Period
Ambiguity
Praise
Sematics
33. 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).
Intensive Pronouns
Infinitive Verb
Effective Sentence
Transitive Verbs
34. 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.
Classification
Effective Sentence
Nominative Case Noun
Gerund
35. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house
Personal Pronouns
Possessive Case Pronoun
Singular Nouns
Common Nouns
36. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Demonstrative Pronouns
Independent clause with two phrases
Indefinite Nouns
Sarcasm
37. Use around information that does not fit into the flow of the sentence - but that you want to include
Chronological order
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Hyphen
Parentheses
38. The study of the structure of sentences
Parentheses
Exclamatory Sentence
Syntax
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
39. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding' - memory - peace -
Other sources
Abstract Nouns
Apostrophe
Phrasal Pronouns
40. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - publishing and evaluating
Common Nouns
Abstract Nouns
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Brackets
41. 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).
Cause and Effect
Student - created sources
Compound/ Complex Sentence
MLA
42. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message
Exclamatory Sentence
Tone
Parentheses
Counterpoint
43. Specialized language of a particular group or culture
Jargon
Transitive Verbs
Adverbs
Comparison
44. A student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell - note cards - graphic organizers - oral histories - and journals
Future Tense
Compound subject - compound predicate
Student - created sources
Linking or Connecting Verbs
45. The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st - 2nd - 3rd person; omniscient - limited omniscient)
Simple Pronouns
point of view
Relative Pronouns
Phrasal Pronouns
46. 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.
Etymology
Simple Sentence
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Reciprocal Pronouns
47. The study of langauge as it relates to society - including race - class - gender and age
Demonstrative Pronouns
Sociolinguistics
Classification
Effective Sentence
48. Referrence works - Internet - Student - created sources and Other sources
Indefinite Nouns
Present Perfect Tense
Types of Source Material for Writing
Conditional Sentence
49. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Period
Clauses
Independent clause with two phrases
50. Pronouns used to ask questions. What - which - who - whom - whose e.g. WHAT is going on? WHO turned off the lights?
Interrogative Pronouns
Phonology
Clauses
Sarcasm