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CSET Reading Language Literature
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned
adjective
SDAIE Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
compliment
didactic
2. Segment of linguistic science that deals with speech sounds - how sounds are made vocally - sound changes which develop in languages - and the relation of speech sounds to the total language process
phonetics
blend
phonogram
stationery
3. Adjective clause - subject & predicate - cannot stand alone - modifies subject with relative pronoun or adverb
summarize
diphthong
relative clause (subordinate)
Logic (writing)
4. Means to stand still
third person point of view
consonant
lyric
stationary
5. Conventions - lft - rt - top - bottom - spaces between words -
concepts of print
assonance
digraph
logos
6. English - written words made up of letters that match sounds heard when spoken - corresponding to each other
phonogram
voiced sounds
pathos
alphabetic principle
7. Lyric - narrative - dramatic
kinds of poetry
couplet
phoneme
homonyms
8. Limited: inside the mind of one character - unlimited: third person shifting from one person to another - omniscient: all knowing multiple focal points of varying depths
third person point of view
vowel
assess critically
relative clause (subordinate)
9. Extensive oral vocabulary contributes by helping reader recognize a word after sounding it out
elegy
decoding skills
couplet
phonic analysis
10. Appeal of logic or reason
noun
blooms taxonomy
logos
stationary
11. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry
3 essential elements of a novel
consonant
couplet
blend
12. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense
phonic analysis
allophones
antagonist
ethos
13. Produced when the vocal cords are apart
voiceless sounds
immigrate to
full rhyme
Analogy
14. Word families
antonym
phonogram
grapheme
allusion
15. A word that is close in meaning to another word
phoneme
interpret
synonym
occurrence
16. Planning - brainstorming - mapping/clustering/webbing - prior knowledge - prewriting - proofreading - drafting - writing - shaping - revising - editing -
syntax
allusion
Dramatic
writing process
17. Tell shorter stories about a particular person
Ballads
free variation
simile
inductive reasoning
18. Writing paper
independent clause (main)
haiku
stationery
homonyms
19. Pull together summarization - analysis - and interpretation to connect it to what you already know or what you are learning
dramatic monologue
noun
syntax
synthesize
20. Technique commonly used by poets in which the sound of a word imitates a natural sound
onomatopeia
relative clause (subordinate)
Dramatic
diphthong
21. New vowel sounds produced by two vowels (OY in boy - I in buy)
diphthong
anachronism
voiced sounds
semantics
22. Combining sounds to pronounce words 'sounding it out'
phonic analysis
blending
protagonist
third person point of view
23. Used to describe one thing in terms of something else - not intended to be taken literally
figurative language
Ballads
antonym
consonant
24. 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
alphabetic principle
metaphor
syntax
figurative language
25. Extract and restate that material's main message - literal level
phonetics
summarize
suprasegmentals
Narrative
26. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'
adjective
anachronism
pronoun
haiku
27. Vowels and consonants repeat
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
full rhyme
independent clause (main)
semantics
28. The pattern of unaccented followed by accented syllables that form the basis of a poem's rhythm
pun
iamb
free variation
state of being
29. 2 letters that make 1 sound
soliloquy
writing process
pun
blend
30. Unit of meaning that cannot be divided into smaller words (book) - free morpheme stands alone (lock - man) - bound morphemes must be combined as prefix - suffix - or inflectional endings (locks - man's)
morpheme
haiku
morphology
Ballads
31. False impression
morpheme
illusion
adverb
verb
32. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence
ode
dependent clause (subordinate)
lyric
clause
33. Read 'between the lines' make inferences about unstated assumptions implied by material
interpret
Pre - alphabetic (preK- K) reading development
soliloquy
elegy
34. Written/printed representation of a phoneme (speech sound)
digraph
alphabetic principle
synthesize
grapheme
35. Show high probability of being true
rhetoric (writing)
diphthong
SDAIE Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
ode
36. Action
state of being
rhetoric (writing)
verb
stationery
37. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems
antonym
sonnet
diphthong
third person point of view
38. 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
idiom
synonym
phonemic awareness
stationary
39. Writing with vowels in each syllable - read chunks or phonograms
tone languages
illusion
middle and late alphabetic (1) R.D.
morphology
40. A meditation on life and death
Epics
synonym
ode
elegy
41. Clues that hint at important plot developments that are to follow in a story or drama - causes suspense and anxiety as plot device and creation of mood
foreshadowing
assonance
Narrative
pronoun
42. To leave one country to live in another
grapheme
third person point of view
emigrate from
soliloquy
43. Speech sound produced by partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any various constrictions of speech organs (not vowels)
consonant
phonics
immigrate to
synonym
44. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)
digraph
alphabetic principle
pun
decoding skills
45. Humorous play on words
pun
syntax
phoneme
ode
46. 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
morphology
ode
antagonist
phoneme
47. Letters associated with sound - read simple CVC words - rhyming
phonogram
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
middle and late alphabetic (1) R.D.
immigrate to
48. A comparison - using like or as
Ballads
state of being
suprasegmentals
simile
49. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
metaphor
morphology
haiku
50. Repetition of vowel (only) sounds in a group of words close together
middle and late alphabetic (1) R.D.
assonance
blend
syntax