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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






4. Phonetic unit or segment






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






6. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






7. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






8. 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






9. 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)






10. To leave one country to live in another






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






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






13. Setting - character - plot






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






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






16. Action






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






18. 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)






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






20. One person talking with others around






21. The audience became silent.






22. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






23. Left to right - visual clues recognized






24. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






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






26. A comparison - using like or as






27. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






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






30. 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






31. Writing paper






32. Complete or to supplement






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. Use pitch syntactically






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






38. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






39. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






40. A meditation on life and death






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






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






43. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






44. Hero or heroine






45. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






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






47. A story told in the words of one person






48. A word opposite in meaning to another word






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






50. Your dancing was excellent.







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