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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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1. Angela dances.
Future Tense
Collective Nouns
Conditional Sentence
Single Subject - Single Predicate
2. 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.
location
APA?
Personal Pronouns
Adjective
3. Reference works online. Search engines or portals (sites that list many resources and websites) to gather ideas and information.
Internet
Reflective Pronouns
Ineffective Sentences
Sarcasm
4. Name only one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzen - city - house - earthquake
Sarcasm
point of view
Singular Nouns
Other sources
5. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - publishing and evaluating
Possessive Pronouns
Past Perfect Tense
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Complex Sentence
6. The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st - 2nd - 3rd person; omniscient - limited omniscient)
Other sources
Adjective
point of view
Dash
7. Group of words - describes person/thing - performs action - contains subject & predicate
Future Tense
Praise
Clauses
Demonstrative Pronouns
8. E.g. floor - desk - computer
Neutral Nouns
Reciprocal Pronouns
Comma
Nominative Case Pronoun
9. 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.
Objective Case Pronoun
Apostrophe
Future Perfect Tense
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
10. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.
Independent clause with two phrases
Compound subject - compound predicate
Reflective Pronouns
Psycholinguistics
11. Names we give to specific people and places. Usually begin with a capital letter. e.g. 'Tony Blair' - 'France' - 'Cardiff'
Personal Pronouns
Declarative Sentence
Possessive Case Noun
Proper Nouns
12. Referrence works - Internet - Student - created sources and Other sources
Types of Source Material for Writing
Masculine Nouns
Phrasal Pronouns
Ambiguity
13. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the
Clauses
Compound subject - compound predicate
Adjective
Counterpoint
14. 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.
Objective Case Noun
Phonetics
Brackets
Compound Sentence
15. People - places - or things that can be experienced by the senses e.g. bear - Gold Miner Restaurant - basketball
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Concrete Nouns
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Phonetics
16. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house
Common Nouns
Compound subject - compound predicate
Phonetics
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
17. McMurtry - Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York: Simon and Schuster - 1960.
Indefinite Nouns
How to site for a book in MLA format
Singular Nouns
Illustration
18. Pronouns combined with self or selves myself - ourselves - yourself yourselves - himself - herself - itself - oneself themselves
Present Tense
Types of Source Material for Writing
Hyphen
Compound Pronouns
19. Names female persons or animals e.g. mother - aunt - sister - doe
Feminine Nouns
Conditional Sentence
Possessive Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
20. The writer states the topic sentence first followed by details
Objective Case Noun
How to site for a book in MLA format
Illustration
Dash
21. The order in which events happen in time.
Chronological order
Present Perfect Tense
Phonology
Objective Case Noun
22. 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.
English origins
Neutral Nouns
Complex Sentence
Clauses
23. 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
Adjective
Participle Verb
Ineffective Sentences
Tone
24. The study of meaning in a language
Exclamatory Sentence
Pragmatics
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Sematics
25. 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.
Exclamatory Sentence
Pragmatics
Intensive Pronouns
Internet
26. Sentence that makes a statement and tells about a person - place - thing or idea Example: The bird drank from the water fountain.
Cause and Effect
Declarative Sentence
Complex Sentence
Nominative Case Pronoun
27. A student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell - note cards - graphic organizers - oral histories - and journals
Student - created sources
Sematics
English origins
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
28. Connect the subject and the subject complement (an adjective - noun - or noun equivalent) Example: It 'was' rainy. Erin 'is' happy.
Abstract Nouns
Linking or Connecting Verbs
Types of Source Material for Writing
Nominative Case Noun
29. A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause.
Interrogative Sentence
Future Tense
Simple Sentence
Plural Nouns
30. 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.)
Cause and Effect
Doublespeak
Exclamatory Sentence
Complex Sentence
31. Harsh - cutting language or tone intended to ridicule
Climax
Transitive Verbs
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Sarcasm
32. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding' - memory - peace -
Declarative Sentence
Phonetics
Abstract Nouns
Phrasal Pronouns
33. 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
Intransitive Verbs
Proper Nouns
Past Perfect Tense
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
34. Each other - one another
Phrasal Pronouns
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Exclamation Point
Nominative Case Noun
35. The writer states the details first and places the topic sentence at the end.
Personal Pronouns
Gerund
Climax
Demonstrative Pronouns
36. 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
point of view
Style
Ethnolinguistics
Climax
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.
Declarative Sentence
Relative Pronouns
Concrete Nouns
Praise
38. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
Interrogative Sentence
Hyphen
Question Mark
39. Personal writing - workplace writing - subject writing - creative writing - persuasive writing - and scholarly writing
Future Perfect Tense
Internet
Writing Activities
Syntax
40. 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
Transitive Verbs
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Common Nouns
Simple Pronouns
41. Modern Language Association
location
Common Nouns
MLA
Proper Nouns
42. 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).
Relative Pronouns
Clauses
Dash
Transitive Verbs
43. 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.
English origins
Present Perfect Tense
Transitive Verbs
A partial list of rhetorical features that affect the voice of a piece:
44. 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.
Infinitive Verb
Climax
Reciprocal Pronouns
Masculine Nouns
45. Show possession or ownership. - apostrophes NOT used - my - his - her
Proper Nouns
Relative Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Possessive Case Pronoun
46. Use to separate the elements in a series (three or more things) - to connect two independent clauses - and to set off introductory elements.
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Reference works
Effective Sentence
Comma
47. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Indefinite Nouns
Objective Case Noun
Chronological order
Tone
48. The study of language as it relates to culture - frequently associated with minorty linguistic groups within the larger culture
Ethnolinguistics
Indefinite Pronouns
Morphology
Future Perfect Tense
49. The writer shows similarities and differences between two or more subjects
Comparison
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Phonology
Interrogative Pronouns
50. 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
English origins
Nominative Case Noun
Imperative Sentence
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