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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Technique commonly used by poets in which the sound of a word imitates a natural sound






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






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






4. 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






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






6. Complete or to supplement






7. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






8. Setting - character - plot






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






10. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






11. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






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






13. 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






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






15. Appeal of emotion






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






17. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






18. 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






19. Your dancing was excellent.






20. Left to right - visual clues recognized






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






29. Means to stand still






30. A story told in the words of one person






31. To leave one country to live in another






32. Writing paper






33. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






34. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






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






36. The audience became silent.






37. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






38. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






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






40. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






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






42. 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 -






43. 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)






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






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






46. Demonstrates truth






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






48. Segment of linguistic science that deals with speech sounds - how sounds are made vocally - sound changes which develop in languages - and the relation of speech sounds to the total language process






49. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






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