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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sentence that gives a command Example: Please take the dog out for a walk.
Transitive Verbs
Doublespeak
Conditional Sentence
Imperative Sentence
2. People - places - or things that can be experienced by the senses e.g. bear - Gold Miner Restaurant - basketball
Present Perfect Tense
Phonology
APA?
Concrete Nouns
3. 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
To cite a book in APA format
Ethnolinguistics
Hyphen
Pragmatics
4. Sentence that makes a statement and tells about a person - place - thing or idea Example: The bird drank from the water fountain.
Ethnolinguistics
Objective Case Pronoun
Declarative Sentence
Compound Sentence
5. 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.
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Compound Sentence
Sarcasm
Personal Pronouns
6. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message
Counterpoint
Proper Nouns
Indefinite Nouns
Compound Pronouns
7. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - publishing and evaluating
Student - created sources
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Adjective
Compound Sentence
8. Marks
Brackets
Ethnolinguistics
Illustration
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
9. The study of the structure of sentences
Transitive Verbs
Indefinite Pronouns
Syntax
Interrogative Sentence
10. Names male persons or animals e.g. father - uncle - brother - stag
Masculine Nouns
Adjective
Phrases
Neutral Nouns
11. Pronouns used to ask questions. What - which - who - whom - whose e.g. WHAT is going on? WHO turned off the lights?
Interrogative Pronouns
Syntax
Effective Sentence
Compound subject - compound predicate
12. The writer states the topic sentence first followed by details
Cause and Effect
Abstract Nouns
Illustration
Interrogative Pronouns
13. A punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
Illustration
Complex Sentence
Question Mark
Ineffective Sentences
14. Group of words - describes person/thing - performs action - contains subject & predicate
Clauses
Past Perfect Tense
Conditional Sentence
Question Mark
15. Refer to specific people - places - or things this - that - these - those e.g. Which skates are ligher - THESE or THOSE?
Compound Sentence
Interrogative Sentence
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Demonstrative Pronouns
16. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.
Demonstrative Pronouns
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Independent clause with two phrases
Future Tense
17. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Writing Activities
Reflective Pronouns
Sarcasm
Adverbs
18. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding' - memory - peace -
Past Perfect Tense
Reciprocal Pronouns
Student - created sources
Abstract Nouns
19. Referrence works - Internet - Student - created sources and Other sources
Adjective
Apostrophe
Concrete Nouns
Types of Source Material for Writing
20. The study of meaning in a language
Participle Verb
Sematics
Clauses
Objective Case Noun
21. Angie and Jay dance and win contests.
How to site for a book in MLA format
English origins
Compound subject - compound predicate
Compound Pronouns
22. The study of language as it relates to culture - frequently associated with minorty linguistic groups within the larger culture
Ineffective Sentences
Ethnolinguistics
Phrases
Rhetoric organizational patterns
23. 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.
How to site for a book in MLA format
Praise
Reciprocal Pronouns
Counterpoint
24. 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).
Independent clause with two phrases
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Infinitive Verb
Antecedent
25. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant Ex. Toilet - Ladies' Room
Style
Present Perfect Tense
Intransitive Verbs
Euphemism
26. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning
Sarcasm
Pragmatics
Intransitive Verbs
Collective Nouns
27. Use to separate the elements in a series (three or more things) - to connect two independent clauses - and to set off introductory elements.
Plural Nouns
Comma
Exclamatory Sentence
Counterpoint
28. 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.
Phonetics
Parentheses
point of view
Antecedent
29. 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
Independent clause with two phrases
Cause and Effect
Effective Sentence
30. 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.
Intensive Pronouns
Nominative Case Noun
English origins
Independent clause with two phrases
31. Can be the subject of a clause - I - you - he - she - it - we - they - is a predicate nominative if it follows a 'be' verb or another linking verb and renames the subject
Compound Pronouns
Clauses
Nominative Case Pronoun
Dash
32. Style - Tone - Point of View - Sarcasm - Counterpoint and Praise
Past Perfect Tense
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Types of Source Material for Writing
Simple Pronouns
33. Pronouns combined with self or selves myself - ourselves - yourself yourselves - himself - herself - itself - oneself themselves
Feminine Nouns
Nominative Case Noun
Compound Pronouns
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
34. Verb preceded by 'to' and the base form of a verb - such as 'to see' or 'to leave'. It can function as an adjective - adverb - or noun
Phrases
Jargon
Feminine Nouns
Infinitive Verb
35. Reference works online. Search engines or portals (sites that list many resources and websites) to gather ideas and information.
Internet
Imperative Sentence
Compound Sentence
Effective Sentence
36. Angela dances.
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Complex Sentence
Internet
Simple Sentence
37. 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.
Style
Abstract Nouns
Relative Pronouns
Ethnolinguistics
38. The writer shows how events and their results are related
Independent clause with two phrases
Complex Sentence
Cause and Effect
Compound Sentence
39. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on
Syntax
Reference works
Possessive Case Pronoun
Nominative Case Pronoun
40. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the
Jargon
Adjective
Parentheses
Objective Case Noun
41. 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.
Internet
Gerund
MLA
Effective Sentence
42. Analogy - cause and effects - compare and contrast and illustration
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Feminine Nouns
Objective Case Noun
43. The study of language as it relates to the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language
Clauses
Psycholinguistics
Ambiguity
To cite a book in APA format
44. The writer explains the relationships between concepts or terms
Classification
Other sources
Interrogative Pronouns
Possessive Case Pronoun
45. The analysis of how sounds funtion in a langauge or dialect
Feminine Nouns
Phonology
Types of Source Material for Writing
Phonetics
46. Film - art - media and so on
Objective Case Noun
Other sources
Etymology
Collective Nouns
47. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house
Common Nouns
Possessive Pronouns
Effective Sentence
Tone
48. 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
Sociolinguistics
Dash
Student - created sources
Conditional Sentence
49. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?
Interrogative Sentence
location
Gerund
English origins
50. Groups of related words that operate as a single part of speech - such as a verb - verbal - prepositional - appositive - or absolute
Independent clause with two phrases
Phrases
Other sources
Ethnolinguistics