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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. Show high probability of being true






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






3. Logos - pathos - ethos






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






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






6. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






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






8. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






9. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






10. Dramatic conversation alone






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






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






13. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






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






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






16. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






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






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






19. Complete or to supplement






20. Means to stand still






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






22. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






23. Demonstrates truth






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






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






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






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






28. Word families






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






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






31. A story told in the words of one person






32. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






33. Setting - character - plot






34. To enter a new country to live there






35. 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






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






37. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






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






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






40. Appeal of emotion






41. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






42. System and pattern of speech sounds - knowledge of sound patterns is part of the grammar since you create 'meaningful units'






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






45. The audience became silent.






46. Action






47. 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 -






48. 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






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






50. To leave one country to live in another