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






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






3. 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






4. Express praise or flattery






5. Means to stand still






6. Logos - pathos - ethos






7. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






8. 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






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






10. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






11. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






12. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






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






14. Dramatic conversation alone






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






16. Conventions - lft - rt - top - bottom - spaces between words -






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






18. A story told in the words of one person






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






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






21. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






22. Use pitch syntactically






23. False impression






24. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






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






26. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






27. 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






28. Word families






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






30. 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






31. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






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






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






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






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






36. A comparison - using like or as






37. Humorous play on words






38. To enter a new country to live there






39. Long poems that describe a deed of heroes in battle or conflicts between human beings and natural and divine forces






40. 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






41. Hero or heroine






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






43. Writing paper






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






45. 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 -






46. 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)






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






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






49. Understanding that phonemes (sounds) make up spoken words - including the ability to blend - segment and manipulate phonemes in spoken words - auditory without the inclusion or use of print






50. 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