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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. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






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






3. 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






4. To leave one country to live in another






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






6. Person place or thing






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






8. 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)






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






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






11. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






12. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






13. Express praise or flattery






14. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






15. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






16. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






17. Phonetic unit or segment






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






19. Knowledge (recall & recognize - comprehend (changes into a different symbolic form - application (solves a problem using info & appropriate generalization - synthesis (solves a problem by collaboration of information and original creative thinking -






20. A meditation on life and death






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






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






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






24. A word opposite in meaning to another word






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






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






27. Writing paper






28. 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)






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






30. Setting - character - plot






31. 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






32. Read 'between the lines' make inferences about unstated assumptions implied by material






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






34. Word families






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






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






37. Means to stand still






38. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






39. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






40. Use pitch syntactically






41. 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






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






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






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






45. Humorous play on words






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






47. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






48. 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






49. Logos - pathos - ethos






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