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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. Combining sounds to pronounce words 'sounding it out'






2. Complete or to supplement






3. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






4. Means to stand still






5. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'






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






7. The audience became silent.






8. 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






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






10. Left to right - visual clues recognized






11. 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






12. 2 letters that make 1 sound






13. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






14. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






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






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






17. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






18. Show high probability of being true






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






20. 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)






21. A comparison - using like or as






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






23. Your dancing was excellent.






24. 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)






25. A word opposite in meaning to another word






26. Use pitch syntactically






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






28. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






29. 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






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






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






32. Logos - pathos - ethos






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






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






35. Setting - character - plot






36. 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






37. Hero or heroine






38. False impression






39. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






40. 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






41. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






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






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






44. To leave one country to live in another






45. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






46. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






47. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






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






49. To enter a new country to live there






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