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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
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1. Read 'between the lines' make inferences about unstated assumptions implied by material






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






3. One person talking with others around






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






6. Logos - pathos - ethos






7. 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






8. To enter a new country to live there






9. 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






10. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






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






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






13. 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines - first line 5 - second 7 - third 5






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






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






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






17. 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






18. Short poems from the word lyre 'harp like instrument' - haiku - ode - elegy - sonnet






19. 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






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






21. Speech sound created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity - usually forming the most prominent and central sound of a syllable (A - E - I - O - U - Y)






22. Tell shorter stories about a particular person






23. To leave one country to live in another






24. 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






25. A meditation on life and death






26. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






27. 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)






28. Action






29. Demonstrates truth






30. Use pitch of individual syllables to contrast meaning






31. Use pitch syntactically






32. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






33. False impression






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






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






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






37. Hero or heroine






38. Setting - character - plot






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






40. A comparison - using like or as






41. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






42. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






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






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






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






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






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






48. Greek 'to struggle against': a person or force that opposes the protagonist; an enemy of the hero or heroine 'protagonist'






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






50. Humorous play on words