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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. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






2. Means to stand still






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






4. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






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






6. Writing paper






7. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






8. Humorous play on words






9. Process of applying knowledge of letter - sound relationships - blending the sounds represented by letters so as to arrive at the pronunciation of printed words






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






11. Specific to general conclusion - reliable or unreliable - used to discover something new






12. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






13. False impression






14. Your dancing was excellent.






15. To leave one country to live in another






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






17. 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






18. Show high probability of being true






19. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






20. 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)






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






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






23. Person noun - takes a nouns place 'I - you - they - her - its - ours'






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






25. 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






26. Dramatic conversation alone






27. Vowels and consonants repeat






28. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






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






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






31. Appeal of logic or reason






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






33. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






34. Complete or to supplement






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






36. The audience became silent.






37. Appeal of emotion






38. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






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






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






42. 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






43. Person place or thing






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






45. 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






46. Word families






47. Contrast in what is stated/expected and what is really meant/happening






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






49. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






50. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry