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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Show high probability of being true






2. Dramatic conversation alone






3. Humorous play on words






4. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






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






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






7. Phonetic unit or segment






8. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






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






10. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






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






12. Reference to work of literature or a well - known historical event - person - or place






13. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






14. The audience became silent.






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






21. A story told in the words of one person






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






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






24. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






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






26. Means to stand still






27. A meditation on life and death






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






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






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






31. Left to right - visual clues recognized






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






33. 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






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






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






36. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






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






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






39. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






40. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






41. 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)






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. 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






44. Writing paper






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






46. One person talking with others around






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






48. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






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






50. Use pitch syntactically