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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. A word that is close in meaning to another word






3. Use pitch syntactically






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






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






6. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'






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






8. Means to stand still






9. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






10. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






11. A story told in the words of one person






12. Person place or thing






13. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






14. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






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






16. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






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






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






19. Your dancing was excellent.






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






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






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






23. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






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






25. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






26. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






27. Dramatic conversation alone






28. The audience became silent.






29. 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)






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






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






32. Hero or heroine






33. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






34. Appeal of logic or reason






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






36. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






37. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






38. 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






39. Phonetic unit or segment






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






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






42. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






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






44. Humorous play on words






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






46. Vowels and consonants repeat






47. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






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






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






50. Show high probability of being true