Test your basic knowledge |

CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. 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






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






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






4. 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 -






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






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






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






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






9. Appeal of logic or reason






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






11. 2 letters that make 1 sound






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






13. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






14. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






15. Your dancing was excellent.






16. Demonstrates truth






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






18. 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






19. Show high probability of being true






20. Express praise or flattery






21. Complete or to supplement






22. To enter a new country to live there






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






24. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






26. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






27. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






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






29. Setting - character - plot






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






31. Writing paper






32. One person talking with others around






33. Vowels and consonants repeat






34. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






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






36. Phonetic unit or segment






37. Action






38. Logos - pathos - ethos






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






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






41. Appeal of emotion






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






43. Use pitch syntactically






44. To leave one country to live in another






45. 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






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






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






48. Contains subject and predicate (verb) -






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






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