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CSET Reading Language Literature
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word phrase that has a meaning different from it s usual meaning - 'He lost his head'
immigrate to
idiom
stationary
kinds of poetry
2. Combining sounds to pronounce words 'sounding it out'
blending
alphabetic principle
Narrative
3 essential elements of a novel
3. A poet's use of words to create mental pictures or images - that communicate experience
elegy
imagery
pathos
phonetics
4. Your dancing was excellent.
ethos
state of being
free variation
blending
5. System and pattern of speech sounds - knowledge of sound patterns is part of the grammar since you create 'meaningful units'
suprasegmentals
phonology
SDAIE Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
adjective
6. Dramatic conversation alone
Logic (writing)
soliloquy
third person point of view
writing process
7. Means to stand still
Pre - alphabetic (preK- K) reading development
adjective
ode
stationary
8. Letters associated with sound - read simple CVC words - rhyming
antonym
4 modes of discourse (writing)
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
figurative language
9. Person place or thing
couplet
Ballads
syntax
noun
10. 2 different forms which are identical in every way except for 1 sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string (sink - zink - pink/ hit - hat - hot
minimal pairs
immigrate to
dependent clause (subordinate)
emigrate from
11. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)
rhetoric (writing)
decoding skills
digraph
stationery
12. Read 'between the lines' make inferences about unstated assumptions implied by material
ode
Analogy
interpret
illusion
13. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare
consonant
stationary
Dramatic
independent clause (main)
14. Logos - pathos - ethos
kinds of poetry
3 models of appeal
occurrence
monologue
15. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -
vowel
stationery
iamb
clause
16. Action
verb
Narrative
deductive reasoning
phonemic awareness
17. Extract and restate that material's main message - literal level
rhetoric (writing)
summarize
lyric
noun
18. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry
morpheme
independent clause (main)
couplet
Logic (writing)
19. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning
analyze
morpheme
tone languages
dramatic monologue
20. Knowledge (recall & recognize - comprehend (changes into a different symbolic form - application (solves a problem using info & appropriate generalization - synthesis (solves a problem by collaboration of information and original creative thinking -
ethos
blooms taxonomy
antonym
foreshadowing
21. Adjective clause - subject & predicate - cannot stand alone - modifies subject with relative pronoun or adverb
didactic
relative clause (subordinate)
simile
onomatopeia
22. Word families
phonogram
phonetics
onomatopeia
analyze
23. 2 letters that make 1 sound
interpret
blend
dramatic monologue
kinds of poetry
24. Planning - brainstorming - mapping/clustering/webbing - prior knowledge - prewriting - proofreading - drafting - writing - shaping - revising - editing -
writing process
emigrate from
morphology
pathos
25. A word opposite in meaning to another word
irony
antonym
blend
figurative language
26. Serious - elaborate lyric full of high praise and noble feeling developed by the Greeks
rhetoric (writing)
ode
third person point of view
kinds of poetry
27. Analysis & study of meanings of words - phrases - and sentences - useful strategy for decoding words used in sentences
dramatic monologue
semantics
phonogram
rhetoric (writing)
28. One person talking with others around
illusion
morphology
assess critically
monologue
29. Freedom to pronounce a word with 2 different phonemes without changing the meaning
ethos
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
free variation
sonnet
30. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating
phonic analysis
imagery
suprasegmentals
voiced sounds
31. Smallest sound unit of speech - /b/ in book - segments used to differentiate between meanings of words - required understanding of phonological rules of the language for knowing how to produce words
Epics
phoneme
semantics
haiku
32. Greek 'to struggle against': a person or force that opposes the protagonist; an enemy of the hero or heroine 'protagonist'
imagery
pun
antagonist
phonogram
33. Person noun - takes a nouns place 'I - you - they - her - its - ours'
adverb
morphology
suprasegmentals
pronoun
34. Understanding that phonemes (sounds) make up spoken words - including the ability to blend - segment and manipulate phonemes in spoken words - auditory without the inclusion or use of print
immigrate to
phonemic awareness
assonance
3 models of appeal
35. Words spelled differently that sound alike - to too two
couplet
kinds of poetry
homonyms
iamb
36. Appeal of emotion
pathos
grapheme
dramatic monologue
adverb
37. Appeal of logic or reason
monologue
metaphor
logos
3 models of appeal
38. The pattern of unaccented followed by accented syllables that form the basis of a poem's rhythm
interpret
iamb
third person point of view
compliment
39. Complete or to supplement
complement
simile
analyze
alphabetic principle
40. Contrast in what is stated/expected and what is really meant/happening
tone languages
ode
blending
irony
41. Study of morphemes & their variants allomorphs - and word formation - combining morphemes
lyric
occurrence
morphology
didactic
42. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence
immigrate to
dependent clause (subordinate)
independent clause (main)
emigrate from
43. Adds to the meaning of a verb - another adverb - adj. - or whole sentence. 'I'll finish 'in a minute''
decoding skills
adverb
stationery
4 modes of discourse (writing)
44. Specific to general conclusion - reliable or unreliable - used to discover something new
inductive reasoning
orthographic (2-3) R.D.
blooms taxonomy
vowel
45. New vowel sounds produced by two vowels (OY in boy - I in buy)
3 essential elements of a novel
anachronism
phonemic awareness
diphthong
46. Writing paper
third person point of view
stationery
middle and late alphabetic (1) R.D.
voiceless sounds
47. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'
kinds of poetry
adjective
relative clause (subordinate)
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
48. A meditation on life and death
antagonist
immigrate to
dependent clause (subordinate)
elegy
49. Event or detail chronologically out of its proper time in history
Epics
voiced sounds
anachronism
alphabetic principle
50. Examination of various ways that words combine to create meaning - study of how sentences are formed and the pattern or structure of word order in sentences
Narrative
syntax
Logic (writing)
tone languages