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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A word opposite in meaning to another word






2. 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






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






4. Vowels and consonants repeat






5. The audience became silent.






6. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






7. Person place or thing






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






9. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






10. Appeal of emotion






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. Hero or heroine






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






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






20. The pattern of unaccented followed by accented syllables that form the basis of a poem's rhythm






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






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






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






24. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






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






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






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






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






29. 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)






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






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






32. Setting - character - plot






33. Dramatic conversation alone






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






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






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






37. 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






38. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






39. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






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






41. Word families






42. To enter a new country to live there






43. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






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






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






46. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






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






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






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






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