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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Technique commonly used by poets in which the sound of a word imitates a natural sound






2. Serious - elaborate lyric full of high praise and noble feeling developed by the Greeks






3. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






5. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






6. 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






7. Extensive oral vocabulary contributes by helping reader recognize a word after sounding it out






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






9. Humorous play on words






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






11. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






12. Person place or thing






13. Freedom to pronounce a word with 2 different phonemes without changing the meaning






14. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






15. A story told in the words of one person






16. Vowels and consonants repeat






17. Demonstrates truth






18. To enter a new country to live there






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






20. To leave one country to live in another






21. A comparison - using like or as






22. A meditation on life and death






23. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






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






25. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






26. Means to stand still






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






28. 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






29. 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)






30. Study of morphemes & their variants allomorphs - and word formation - combining morphemes






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






32. A word opposite in meaning to another word






33. Use pitch syntactically






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






35. Action






36. Phonetic unit or segment






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






38. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






43. Left to right - visual clues recognized






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






45. Your dancing was excellent.






46. Dramatic conversation alone






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






48. The audience became silent.






49. One person talking with others around






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