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






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






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






4. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






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






6. 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






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






8. Left to right - visual clues recognized






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






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






11. Person place or thing






12. Dramatic conversation alone






13. Use pitch syntactically






14. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






15. Means to stand still






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






17. One person talking with others around






18. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






20. Appeal of logic or reason






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






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






23. Phonetic unit or segment






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






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






26. Action






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






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






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






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






31. A meditation on life and death






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






33. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






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






35. Hero or heroine






36. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






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






38. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






39. 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






40. Complete or to supplement






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






42. Express praise or flattery






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






44. 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






45. Setting - character - plot






46. A comparison - using like or as






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






48. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






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






50. Demonstrates truth







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