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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. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






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






3. A story told in the words of one person






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






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






6. Clues that hint at important plot developments that are to follow in a story or drama - causes suspense and anxiety as plot device and creation of mood






7. Read 'between the lines' make inferences about unstated assumptions implied by material






8. 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






9. Logos - pathos - ethos






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






11. Person place or thing






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






13. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






14. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






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






16. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






17. Use pitch syntactically






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






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






20. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






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






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






23. A word opposite in meaning to another word






24. 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)






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






26. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






27. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






28. 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






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






30. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






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






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






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






34. 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)






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






36. 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






37. Freedom to pronounce a word with 2 different phonemes without changing the meaning






38. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






39. To leave one country to live in another






40. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






41. The audience became silent.






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






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. Words spelled differently that sound alike - to too two






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






46. Greek 'to struggle against': a person or force that opposes the protagonist; an enemy of the hero or heroine 'protagonist'






47. One person talking with others around






48. 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 -






49. Complete or to supplement






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