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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. Phonetic unit or segment






2. False impression






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






4. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






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






6. 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






7. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






8. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






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






10. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






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






13. Vowels and consonants repeat






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. Express praise or flattery






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






21. Writing paper






22. Setting - character - plot






23. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






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






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






26. The audience became silent.






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






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






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






30. Logos - pathos - ethos






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






32. Word families






33. To leave one country to live in another






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






35. Use pitch syntactically






36. 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 -






37. Humorous play on words






38. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






39. Demonstrates truth






40. Appeal of logic or reason






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






42. Teach and speak at a normal rate in English but use scaffolding - not sheltering English amplifying lessons not simplifying - emphasis on skills that promote thinking - creative - meaning - making individuals who feel they are part of a community of






43. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






44. Speech sound created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity - usually forming the most prominent and central sound of a syllable (A - E - I - O - U - Y)






45. 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






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






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






48. One person talking with others around






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






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