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CSET Reading Language Literature
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Your dancing was excellent.
rhetoric (writing)
metaphor
state of being
Logic (writing)
2. Hero or heroine
soliloquy
compliment
protagonist
Pre - alphabetic (preK- K) reading development
3. Used to describe one thing in terms of something else - not intended to be taken literally
onomatopeia
blending
figurative language
kinds of poetry
4. New vowel sounds produced by two vowels (OY in boy - I in buy)
metaphor
Ballads
protagonist
diphthong
5. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating
voiced sounds
pronoun
Narrative
SDAIE Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
6. Freedom to pronounce a word with 2 different phonemes without changing the meaning
3 essential elements of a novel
Analogy
free variation
lyric
7. Long poems that describe a deed of heroes in battle or conflicts between human beings and natural and divine forces
Epics
3 models of appeal
iamb
state of being
8. Setting - character - plot
3 essential elements of a novel
alphabetic principle
third person point of view
ethos
9. 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
phonemic awareness
imagery
suprasegmentals
minimal pairs
10. 2 letters that make 1 sound
phonogram
blend
Pre - alphabetic (preK- K) reading development
antonym
11. System and pattern of speech sounds - knowledge of sound patterns is part of the grammar since you create 'meaningful units'
voiceless sounds
phonology
third person point of view
adjective
12. Dramatic conversation alone
idiom
full rhyme
phonogram
soliloquy
13. Adds to the meaning of a verb - another adverb - adj. - or whole sentence. 'I'll finish 'in a minute''
phonemic awareness
adverb
phone
haiku
14. Planning - brainstorming - mapping/clustering/webbing - prior knowledge - prewriting - proofreading - drafting - writing - shaping - revising - editing -
writing process
Dramatic
vowel
phonogram
15. To leave one country to live in another
Logic (writing)
alphabetic principle
emigrate from
independent clause (main)
16. General to specific - judged true or false - used to apply what is known
4 modes of discourse (writing)
Ballads
deductive reasoning
third person point of view
17. Demonstrates truth
kinds of poetry
haiku
morpheme
Logic (writing)
18. Technique commonly used by poets in which the sound of a word imitates a natural sound
onomatopeia
imagery
phone
alphabetic principle
19. One person talking with others around
complement
free variation
monologue
full rhyme
20. Produced when the vocal cords are apart
full rhyme
voiceless sounds
phone
soliloquy
21. Event or detail chronologically out of its proper time in history
morphology
Logic (writing)
anachronism
consonant
22. A poet's use of words to create mental pictures or images - that communicate experience
imagery
free variation
Ballads
verb
23. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities
lyric
Analogy
independent clause (main)
assonance
24. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense
rhetoric (writing)
imagery
immigrate to
ethos
25. Serious - elaborate lyric full of high praise and noble feeling developed by the Greeks
adverb
kinds of poetry
monologue
ode
26. Appeal of emotion
interpret
sonnet
adjective
pathos
27. Written/printed representation of a phoneme (speech sound)
grapheme
noun
writing process
stationery
28. Person noun - takes a nouns place 'I - you - they - her - its - ours'
pronoun
stationery
antonym
Logic (writing)
29. Express praise or flattery
occurrence
dependent clause (subordinate)
compliment
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
30. Repetition of vowel (only) sounds in a group of words close together
Logic (writing)
blooms taxonomy
phonic analysis
assonance
31. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative
occurrence
synonym
4 modes of discourse (writing)
imagery
32. 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
rhetoric (writing)
phoneme
inductive reasoning
simile
33. Person place or thing
compliment
kinds of poetry
noun
assonance
34. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry
deductive reasoning
antonym
couplet
grapheme
35. Left to right - visual clues recognized
Pre - alphabetic (preK- K) reading development
allophones
phonogram
3 essential elements of a novel
36. A comparison - using like or as
compliment
4 modes of discourse (writing)
phonology
simile
37. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems
Ballads
homonyms
Logic (writing)
sonnet
38. False impression
phonics
dramatic monologue
complement
illusion
39. Read 'between the lines' make inferences about unstated assumptions implied by material
phonology
interpret
phone
synthesize
40. Appeal of logic or reason
Ballads
logos
onomatopeia
emigrate from
41. Words spelled differently that sound alike - to too two
imagery
blooms taxonomy
irony
homonyms
42. A meditation on life and death
state of being
blending
Logic (writing)
elegy
43. Extract and restate that material's main message - literal level
synonym
sonnet
independent clause (main)
summarize
44. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'
pun
syntax
phonology
adjective
45. Source of info that aids decoding (phonics - structural analysis - and semantic & syntactical info)
cueing system
emigrate from
voiceless sounds
free variation
46. 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
clause
illusion
adverb
third person point of view
47. The audience became silent.
consonant
occurrence
complement
allusion
48. Action
phone
verb
ethos
dramatic monologue
49. Adjective clause - subject & predicate - cannot stand alone - modifies subject with relative pronoun or adverb
simile
pathos
adjective
relative clause (subordinate)
50. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning
illusion
morphology
tone languages
dependent clause (subordinate)