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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






3. A poet's use of words to create mental pictures or images - that communicate experience






4. 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






5. 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






6. A comparison - using like or as






7. Demonstrates truth






8. Dramatic conversation alone






9. 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)






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. Appeal of logic or reason






14. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






15. One person talking with others around






16. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






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






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






19. 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






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






21. A story told in the words of one person






22. Letters associated with sound - read simple CVC words - rhyming






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






24. Hero or heroine






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






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






27. Process of applying knowledge of letter - sound relationships - blending the sounds represented by letters so as to arrive at the pronunciation of printed words






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






29. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






30. The audience became silent.






31. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






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






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






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






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






36. To leave one country to live in another






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






38. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






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






40. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






41. Humorous play on words






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






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






44. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






45. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






46. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






48. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






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






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