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






2. 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






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






4. A story told in the words of one person






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






6. To leave one country to live in another






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






8. Phonetic unit or segment






9. Vowels and consonants repeat






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






11. False impression






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






13. A meditation on life and death






14. 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






15. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






16. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






17. To enter a new country to live there






18. 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






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






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






21. Demonstrates truth






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






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






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






25. Humorous play on words






26. 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






27. 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)






28. Examination of various ways that words combine to create meaning - study of how sentences are formed and the pattern or structure of word order in sentences






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






30. One person talking with others around






31. Setting - character - plot






32. 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






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






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






35. 2 letters that make 1 sound






36. Use pitch syntactically






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






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






39. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






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






41. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






42. Show high probability of being true






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






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






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






46. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






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






48. 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






49. Appeal of emotion






50. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning