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






2. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






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






5. False impression






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






7. Appeal of logic or reason






8. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






9. Action






10. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






11. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






12. To enter a new country to live there






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






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






15. Person place or thing






16. 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






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






18. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






19. Humorous play on words






20. Demonstrates truth






21. 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 -






22. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






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






24. Appeal of emotion






25. Use pitch syntactically






26. New vowel sounds produced by two vowels (OY in boy - I in buy)






27. Phonetic unit or segment






28. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






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






30. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






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






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. Writing paper






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






43. Vowels and consonants repeat






44. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






45. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






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






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






48. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






49. One person talking with others around






50. Words spelled differently that sound alike - to too two