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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.






2. Analogy - cause and effects - compare and contrast and illustration






3. Names female persons or animals e.g. mother - aunt - sister - doe






4. A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. Example: If you build it - they will come.






5. The study of meaning in a language






6. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house






7. A punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation; strong feeling






8. I - you - he - she - it we - they - who - what






9. Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun ex. small - yellow - young - sleek - the






10. A short - staccato sentence that provides meaningful emphasis Ex: So be it.






11. A polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant Ex. Toilet - Ladies' Room






12. Used in contractions; to form singular and plural possessives; and to form plurals of letters - numbers - and worlds named as words.






13. Use around information that does not fit into the flow of the sentence - but that you want to include






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






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.






16. The study of the structure of sentences






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.






18. Names a group of people - animals or objects. Example: army - family - club - group - people - children






19. Angie and Jay dance and win contests.






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.)






21. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding' - memory - peace -






22. McMurtry - Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York: Simon and Schuster - 1960.






23. American Psycological Association






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






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.






26. The writer shows how events and their results are related






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.






28. A sentence that asks a question Example: Have you signed up for the test yet?






29. Modern Language Association






30. Name only one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzen - city - house - earthquake






31. Expresses action or condition of a person - place - or thing






32. A sentence that gives a command Example: Please take the dog out for a walk.






33. Reference works online. Search engines or portals (sites that list many resources and websites) to gather ideas and information.






34. The writer explains the relationships between concepts or terms






35. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on






36. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future Example: Tomorrow - Jan 'will bring' her lunch from home.






37. Pronouns used to ask questions. What - which - who - whom - whose e.g. WHAT is going on? WHO turned off the lights?






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






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






40. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations






41. Film - art - media and so on






42. Angie dances with Jay on Saturday nights.






43. Can be the subject of a clause or the predicate noun when it follows a linking verb e.g. 'be'






44. McMurtry - Larry (1960). <I> Buffalo Girls </I>. New York: Simon and Schuster.






45. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - publishing and evaluating






46. Referrence works - Internet - Student - created sources and Other sources






47. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning






48. The study of language as it relates to the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language






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).






50. Names male persons or animals e.g. father - uncle - brother - stag