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CSET English Composition And Rhetoric
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1. Study of the history and origin of words
Abstract Nouns
Infinitive Verb
Etymology
Other sources
2. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal the truth
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Dash
Feminine Nouns
Doublespeak
3. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Interrogative Sentence
Indefinite Pronouns
Hyphen
Period
4. A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. Example: If you build it - they will come.
Conditional Sentence
Concrete Nouns
Past Perfect Tense
Single Subject - Single Predicate
5. Specialized language of a particular group or culture
Verbs
Jargon
Single Subject - Single Predicate
Euphemism
6. Used in contractions; to form singular and plural possessives; and to form plurals of letters - numbers - and worlds named as words.
Apostrophe
Nominative Case Noun
Masculine Nouns
To cite a book in APA format
7. 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
Proper Nouns
Apostrophe
Possessive Pronouns
Nominative Case Pronoun
8. Reference works online. Search engines or portals (sites that list many resources and websites) to gather ideas and information.
Internet
Collective Nouns
Intensive Pronouns
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
9. Expresses action or condition of a person - place - or thing
Apostrophe
Concrete Nouns
Exclamatory Sentence
Verbs
10. Marks
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
Compound Sentence
Brackets
Possessive Case Pronoun
11. The multiple meanings - either intentional or unintentional - of a word - phrase - sentence - or passage
Jargon
Ambiguity
Gerund
How to site for a book in MLA format
12. Use of positive messages to recongnize or influence others
Comma
Praise
Effective Sentence
Exclamation Point
13. The writer describes a person - place - or thing - organizing the description in a logical manner
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Transitive Verbs
location
Exclamation Point
14. A sentence that communicates strong feeling or ideas. Example: You scared me!
To cite a book in APA format
Exclamatory Sentence
Etymology
Psycholinguistics
15. A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past. e.g. Eline said that she 'had been' to Lake Tahoe many times.
Reflective Pronouns
Transitive Verbs
Past Perfect Tense
point of view
16. A student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell - note cards - graphic organizers - oral histories - and journals
Illustration
Student - created sources
Reference works
Other sources
17. 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'
Internet
Participle Verb
Counterpoint
Collective Nouns
18. Refer to specific people - places - or things this - that - these - those e.g. Which skates are ligher - THESE or THOSE?
Declarative Sentence
Demonstrative Pronouns
Simple Sentence
Hyphen
19. The study of language as it relates to the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language
Psycholinguistics
Types of Source Material for Writing
To cite a book in APA format
Syntax
20. 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.
Other sources
Reciprocal Pronouns
Dash
Hyphen
21. The writer shows how events and their results are related
Cause and Effect
Participle Verb
Exclamatory Sentence
Transitive Verbs
22. Prewriting (also called planning or rehearsal) - shapping - drafting - revising - editing - publishing and evaluating
Comma
Personal Pronouns
Objective Case Noun
Stages of the Writing Process (in order)
23. 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
Hyphen
APA?
Future Tense
Transitive Verbs
24. The order in which events happen in time.
Chronological order
Style
Adverbs
Parentheses
25. Analogy - cause and effects - compare and contrast and illustration
Chronological order
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Nominative Case Noun
Simple Sentence
26. 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
Style
Dash
Abstract Nouns
Ineffective Sentences
27. Shows possession or ownership
Phonetics
Indefinite Pronouns
Possessive Case Noun
Internet
28. 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
Rhetoric organizational patterns
Present Tense
Ineffective Sentences
Masculine Nouns
29. The writer states the topic sentence first followed by details
Comparison
Illustration
Objective Case Pronoun
Compound subject - compound predicate
30. Referrence works - Internet - Student - created sources and Other sources
Types of Source Material for Writing
Possessive Pronouns
Compound Pronouns
Future Tense
31. 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
Chronological order
Classification
Style
32. Pronouns combined with self or selves myself - ourselves - yourself yourselves - himself - herself - itself - oneself themselves
Simple Sentence
Compound Pronouns
Infinitive Verb
Morphology
33. Study of the structure of words
Proper Nouns
Interrogative Sentence
Morphology
Other sources
34. The study of langauge as it relates to society - including race - class - gender and age
Exclamatory Sentence
Present Tense
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
35. 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.
Dash
Pragmatics
Relative Pronouns
Intransitive Verbs
36. The use of contrasting ideas to communicate a message
Compound/ Complex Sentence
Counterpoint
Period
Possessive Case Pronoun
37. A person - place - or thing that is not specific Example: woman - lion - toy - house
Future Tense
Syntax
Common Nouns
Phrases
38. Names we have for ideas - emotions - qualities - processes - occasions and times. Invisible and tangible. e.g. 'joy' - 'gentleness' - 'wedding' - memory - peace -
Interrogative Sentence
Abstract Nouns
Plural Nouns
Parentheses
39. Names more than one person - place - thing - or idea e.g. citzens - cities - houses - earthquakes -
Phrases
Plural Nouns
Past Tense
Feminine Nouns
40. Use around information that does not fit into the flow of the sentence - but that you want to include
Compound Sentence
Parentheses
Sematics
Etymology
41. The analysis of how sounds funtion in a langauge or dialect
Transitive Verbs
Phonology
Phrasal Pronouns
Masculine Nouns
42. I - you - he - she - it we - they - who - what
Possessive Case Noun
Sematics
Simple Pronouns
Syntax
43. Dictionaries - encyclopedias - writers' reference handbooks - books of lists - almanacs - thesauruses - books of quotations - and so on
Simple Sentence
Relative Pronouns
Reference works
Types of Source Material for Writing
44. Film - art - media and so on
Other sources
Writing Activities
Proper Nouns
Imperative Sentence
45. McMurtry - Larry (1960). <I> Buffalo Girls </I>. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Historical and political influences on language acquistioin
Auxiliary or Helping Verbs
Types of Source Material for Writing
To cite a book in APA format
46. Personal writing - workplace writing - subject writing - creative writing - persuasive writing - and scholarly writing
Writing Activities
Compound Pronouns
Etymology
Pragmatics
47. McMurtry - Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York: Simon and Schuster - 1960.
How to site for a book in MLA format
Infinitive Verb
Adverbs
Reciprocal Pronouns
48. 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.
Conditional Sentence
Simple Pronouns
Types of Source Material for Writing
Possessive Pronouns
49. The study of the structure of sentences
Nominative Case Noun
Syntax
Present Tense
Conditional Sentence
50. Refer to or replace nouns in a general way. They are also used as adjectives. They are then followed by a noun - as in BOTH DOGS or EACH BOOK. all - any - anyone - both - each - either - every - many - neither - nobody - no one - nothing - other(s) -
Indefinite Pronouns
Climax
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