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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Process of applying knowledge of letter - sound relationships - blending the sounds represented by letters so as to arrive at the pronunciation of printed words






2. To leave one country to live in another






3. Use pitch syntactically






4. Writing paper






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






6. Technique commonly used by poets in which the sound of a word imitates a natural sound






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






8. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






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






10. Appeal of emotion






11. Dramatic conversation alone






12. 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






13. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






14. 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






15. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






16. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






17. Setting - character - plot






18. Vowels and consonants repeat






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. Phonetic unit or segment






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






22. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






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






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






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






26. Person place or thing






27. Show high probability of being true






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






29. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






30. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






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






32. Left to right - visual clues recognized






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






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






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. Words spelled differently that sound alike - to too two






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






38. A story told in the words of one person






39. Extract and restate that material's main message - literal level






40. A word opposite in meaning to another word






41. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






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






43. Your dancing was excellent.






44. 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)






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






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






47. 2 letters that make 1 sound






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






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






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