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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. Consider the whole - break it into its components parts






2. Dramatic conversation alone






3. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






4. 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






5. Vowels and consonants repeat






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






7. Person place or thing






8. Hero or heroine






9. Appeal of logic or reason






10. A meditation on life and death






11. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






12. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






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






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






15. Left to right - visual clues recognized






16. Logos - pathos - ethos






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






18. 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






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






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






21. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






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






23. Use pitch syntactically






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






25. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






26. Setting - character - plot






27. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. To enter a new country to live there






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






36. Phonetic unit or segment






37. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






38. 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






39. False impression






40. Show high probability of being true






41. Action






42. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






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






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






45. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






46. 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)






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






48. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






49. Humorous play on words






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