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






2. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






3. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






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






5. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






6. A word phrase that has a meaning different from it s usual meaning - 'He lost his head'






7. 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 -






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






9. Event or detail chronologically out of its proper time in history






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






11. Logos - pathos - ethos






12. Vowels and consonants repeat






13. 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






14. Reference to work of literature or a well - known historical event - person - or place






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






16. Word families






17. Writing paper






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






19. Express praise or flattery






20. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






21. A word opposite in meaning to another word






22. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






23. Show high probability of being true






24. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






25. Appeal of emotion






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






27. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






28. Repetition of vowel (only) sounds in a group of words close together






29. To leave one country to live in another






30. 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)






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






32. 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






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






34. Your dancing was excellent.






35. Dramatic conversation alone






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






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






38. 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






39. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






40. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






41. Demonstrates truth






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






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






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






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






46. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






47. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






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






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






50. Humorous play on words