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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One person talking with others around






2. A story told in the words of one person






3. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






4. Vowels and consonants repeat






5. Action






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






7. Humorous play on words






8. Demonstrates truth






9. Appeal of logic or reason






10. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






11. Specific to general conclusion - reliable or unreliable - used to discover something new






12. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






13. System and pattern of speech sounds - knowledge of sound patterns is part of the grammar since you create 'meaningful units'






14. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






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






16. Left to right - visual clues recognized






17. Writing paper






18. Means to stand still






19. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






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






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






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






23. To enter a new country to live there






24. A comparison - using like or as






25. The audience became silent.






26. Use pitch syntactically






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






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






29. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






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






31. 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






32. Logos - pathos - ethos






33. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






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






35. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






36. 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)






37. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






38. Complete or to supplement






39. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






40. 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






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






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






43. Show high probability of being true






44. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






45. Dramatic conversation alone






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






47. 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 -






48. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






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






50. 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)