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






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






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






4. One person talking with others around






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






6. Complete or to supplement






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






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






9. The pattern of unaccented followed by accented syllables that form the basis of a poem's rhythm






10. Setting - character - plot






11. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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)






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






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






20. Show high probability of being true






21. 2 letters that make 1 sound






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






23. False impression






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






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






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






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






28. Dramatic conversation alone






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






30. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






31. To enter a new country to live there






32. To leave one country to live in another






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






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






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






36. 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






37. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






38. Appeal of logic or reason






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






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. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






42. A word opposite in meaning to another word






43. 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






44. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






45. Person place or thing






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






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






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






49. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






50. Means to stand still