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CSET Reading Language Literature
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A meditation on life and death
deductive reasoning
onomatopeia
antonym
elegy
2. Letters associated with sound - read simple CVC words - rhyming
Ballads
compliment
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
foreshadowing
3. Event or detail chronologically out of its proper time in history
monologue
foreshadowing
phoneme
anachronism
4. Extensive oral vocabulary contributes by helping reader recognize a word after sounding it out
digraph
decoding skills
noun
stationary
5. Specific to general conclusion - reliable or unreliable - used to discover something new
inductive reasoning
immigrate to
independent clause (main)
relative clause (subordinate)
6. Show high probability of being true
voiceless sounds
minimal pairs
rhetoric (writing)
SDAIE Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
7. Long poems that describe a deed of heroes in battle or conflicts between human beings and natural and divine forces
Epics
clause
Pre - alphabetic (preK- K) reading development
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
8. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -
4 modes of discourse (writing)
cueing system
clause
interpret
9. Source of info that aids decoding (phonics - structural analysis - and semantic & syntactical info)
3 models of appeal
cueing system
summarize
elegy
10. Pull together summarization - analysis - and interpretation to connect it to what you already know or what you are learning
suprasegmentals
synthesize
Ballads
phonetics
11. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'
adjective
voiced sounds
phonogram
semantics
12. A word phrase that has a meaning different from it s usual meaning - 'He lost his head'
idiom
homonyms
Logic (writing)
figurative language
13. Left to right - visual clues recognized
kinds of poetry
assonance
deductive reasoning
Pre - alphabetic (preK- K) reading development
14. Use pitch syntactically
allusion
homonyms
intonation languages
synthesize
15. 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
pathos
occurrence
phonemic awareness
clause
16. 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
phoneme
pathos
intonation languages
dependent clause (subordinate)
17. Appeal of emotion
diphthong
pathos
iamb
protagonist
18. Tell shorter stories about a particular person
interpret
Ballads
Analogy
intonation languages
19. Appeal of logic or reason
logos
anachronism
foreshadowing
Ballads
20. Demonstrates truth
sonnet
Logic (writing)
relative clause (subordinate)
summarize
21. Action
verb
lyric
immigrate to
writing process
22. Express praise or flattery
immigrate to
compliment
blend
kinds of poetry
23. General to specific - judged true or false - used to apply what is known
foreshadowing
deductive reasoning
irony
blend
24. 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
onomatopeia
inductive reasoning
simile
phonetics
25. 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)
morpheme
antagonist
complement
emigrate from
26. Person noun - takes a nouns place 'I - you - they - her - its - ours'
Narrative
digraph
compliment
pronoun
27. Extract and restate that material's main message - literal level
adverb
phone
summarize
Ballads
28. Examination of various ways that words combine to create meaning - study of how sentences are formed and the pattern or structure of word order in sentences
syntax
logos
occurrence
relative clause (subordinate)
29. The audience became silent.
synthesize
stationary
occurrence
pun
30. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry
couplet
monologue
haiku
writing process
31. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense
3 models of appeal
ethos
rhetoric (writing)
Logic (writing)
32. Reference to work of literature or a well - known historical event - person - or place
allusion
anachronism
blooms taxonomy
phonics
33. 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
compliment
phonics
sonnet
stationary
34. Greek 'to struggle against': a person or force that opposes the protagonist; an enemy of the hero or heroine 'protagonist'
synthesize
homonyms
antagonist
emigrate from
35. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities
dependent clause (subordinate)
occurrence
noun
Analogy
36. Phonetic unit or segment
middle and late alphabetic (1) R.D.
phone
rhetoric (writing)
ode
37. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems
didactic
sonnet
phonetics
diphthong
38. One person talking with others around
phonics
stationary
blend
monologue
39. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned
adjective
early alphabetic (k -1) R. D.
grapheme
didactic
40. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5
haiku
illusion
Dramatic
state of being
41. Repetition of vowel (only) sounds in a group of words close together
idiom
grapheme
assonance
adverb
42. Does not use like or as - direct comparison of one thing spoken of as though it were something else
Logic (writing)
sonnet
metaphor
pronoun
43. Lyric - narrative - dramatic
phone
synthesize
kinds of poetry
blending
44. Produced when the vocal cords are apart
SDAIE Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
phonemic awareness
voiceless sounds
Logic (writing)
45. Adds to the meaning of a verb - another adverb - adj. - or whole sentence. 'I'll finish 'in a minute''
adverb
pun
SDAIE Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
assess critically
46. Vowels and consonants repeat
3 essential elements of a novel
vowel
full rhyme
adverb
47. A poet's use of words to create mental pictures or images - that communicate experience
phonetics
adjective
phonogram
imagery
48. 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
metaphor
vowel
foreshadowing
Epics
49. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads
tone languages
Narrative
analyze
anachronism
50. Humorous play on words
SDAIE Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English
phonemic awareness
grapheme
pun