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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Reference to work of literature or a well - known historical event - person - or place






2. Left to right - visual clues recognized






3. False impression






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Humorous play on words






9. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






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






12. Setting - character - plot






13. Source of info that aids decoding (phonics - structural analysis - and semantic & syntactical info)






14. Does not use like or as - direct comparison of one thing spoken of as though it were something else






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






16. A comparison - using like or as






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






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






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






20. Express praise or flattery






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






22. Hero or heroine






23. The audience became silent.






24. 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






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






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






27. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






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






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






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






31. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






32. Complete or to supplement






33. 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 -






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






35. One person talking with others around






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






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






38. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






39. 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






40. To enter a new country to live there






41. A meditation on life and death






42. Logos - pathos - ethos






43. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






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






45. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






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






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






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






49. Person place or thing






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