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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Specific to general conclusion - reliable or unreliable - used to discover something new






2. Consider the whole - break it into its components parts






3. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






4. Appeal of logic or reason






5. Strategy to teach reading and spelling that involves a relationship between sounds and written symbols - study and use of sound/spelling correspondences to identify written words






6. Demonstrates truth






7. Dramatic conversation alone






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






9. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






10. Pull together summarization - analysis - and interpretation to connect it to what you already know or what you are learning






11. Short poems from the word lyre 'harp like instrument' - haiku - ode - elegy - sonnet






12. Judge the quality of the material on its own and as holds up in your synthesis or it with related material






13. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






14. Reference to work of literature or a well - known historical event - person - or place






15. Read 'between the lines' make inferences about unstated assumptions implied by material






16. Writing paper






17. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






18. 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






19. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






20. Action






21. Teach and speak at a normal rate in English but use scaffolding - not sheltering English amplifying lessons not simplifying - emphasis on skills that promote thinking - creative - meaning - making individuals who feel they are part of a community of






22. Read larger units of print - use analogy to decode larger words - fluent decoding - accuracy and speed of reading stressed






23. Written/printed representation of a phoneme (speech sound)






24. Speech sound created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity - usually forming the most prominent and central sound of a syllable (A - E - I - O - U - Y)






25. 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






26. General to specific - judged true or false - used to apply what is known






27. Words spelled differently that sound alike - to too two






28. False impression






29. Left to right - visual clues recognized






30. 2 letters that make 1 sound






31. Analysis & study of meanings of words - phrases - and sentences - useful strategy for decoding words used in sentences






32. 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






33. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






34. Complete or to supplement






35. A story told in the words of one person






36. Adjective clause - subject & predicate - cannot stand alone - modifies subject with relative pronoun or adverb






37. 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 -






38. Letters associated with sound - read simple CVC words - rhyming






39. Planning - brainstorming - mapping/clustering/webbing - prior knowledge - prewriting - proofreading - drafting - writing - shaping - revising - editing -






40. Combining sounds to pronounce words 'sounding it out'






41. English - written words made up of letters that match sounds heard when spoken - corresponding to each other






42. Vowels and consonants repeat






43. Used to describe one thing in terms of something else - not intended to be taken literally






44. Hero or heroine






45. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






46. To enter a new country to live there






47. The pattern of unaccented followed by accented syllables that form the basis of a poem's rhythm






48. Speech sound produced by partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any various constrictions of speech organs (not vowels)






49. Logos - pathos - ethos






50. New vowel sounds produced by two vowels (OY in boy - I in buy)