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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. Setting - character - plot






2. Writing paper






3. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






4. Variant of phones - ALL Of PHONES






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






6. Demonstrates truth






7. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






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






9. Appeal of logic or reason






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






11. The audience became silent.






12. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






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






14. Dramatic conversation alone






15. 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 -






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






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






18. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






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






20. 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






21. A story told in the words of one person






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






23. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






24. 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






25. Left to right - visual clues recognized






26. 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






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






28. Produced when the vocal cords are vibrating






29. Show high probability of being true






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






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






32. To leave one country to live in another






33. To enter a new country to live there






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






35. 2 letters that make 1 sound






36. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






37. 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)






38. False impression






39. Subject & predicate - can stand alone as sentence






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






41. A comparison - using like or as






42. Extensive oral vocabulary contributes by helping reader recognize a word after sounding it out






43. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






44. Express praise or flattery






45. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






46. Appeal of emotion






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






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






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






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