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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. English - written words made up of letters that match sounds heard when spoken - corresponding to each other






2. Word families






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






4. Hero or heroine






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






6. 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)






7. A meditation on life and death






8. Use pitch syntactically






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






10. Demonstrates truth






11. Writing with vowels in each syllable - read chunks or phonograms






12. 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






13. Adds to the meaning of a verb - another adverb - adj. - or whole sentence. 'I'll finish 'in a minute''






14. 2 letters that make 1 sound






15. Event or detail chronologically out of its proper time in history






16. 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 -






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






18. Extract and restate that material's main message - literal level






19. To enter a new country to live there






20. Complete or to supplement






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






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






23. Greek 'to struggle against': a person or force that opposes the protagonist; an enemy of the hero or heroine 'protagonist'






24. A word phrase that has a meaning different from it s usual meaning - 'He lost his head'






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






26. Express praise or flattery






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






28. Phonetic unit or segment






29. Left to right - visual clues recognized






30. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






31. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






32. Repetition of vowel (only) sounds in a group of words close together






33. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






34. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'






35. Intonation stress (word - sentence - phrase) pitch






36. A poet's use of words to create mental pictures or images - that communicate experience






37. 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






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






39. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






40. A word that is close in meaning to another word






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






42. Writing paper






43. 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






44. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






45. Your dancing was excellent.






46. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






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






48. Person place or thing






49. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






50. Technique commonly used by poets in which the sound of a word imitates a natural sound