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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






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






5. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






6. Your dancing was excellent.






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. A word opposite in meaning to another word






18. The audience became silent.






19. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






20. Means to stand still






21. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






22. 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)






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






24. Hero or heroine






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






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






27. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






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






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






30. Words spelled differently that sound alike - to too two






31. Appeal of logic or reason






32. Action






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






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






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






36. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






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






38. A meditation on life and death






39. To leave one country to live in another






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






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






42. Demonstrates truth






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






48. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






49. 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






50. 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