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CSET English Practice Test 2
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1. Research studies reveal that teaching self-regulation skills to students improves their writing skills. What is true about this relationship?
2. Technology-based strategies that can enhance comprehension of communication needs and objectives include mobile phones and text messaging using computers, tablets, and smartphones. Which of the following is one disadvantage of mobile and text media?
3. Among techniques that writers can use to promote coherence in written paragraphs, which one most reinforces the importance of certain ideas?
4. As an advanced persuasion technique used in the media, what does ad hominem signify?
5. In text coding and text monitoring, which of the following codes means that the student is really confused about something in an
6. In analyzing how the author of a biology text connects and distinguishes among concepts, a teacher helps students identify animals categorized by diet as carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores. Which exercise(s) will help students most to identify author comparison and contrast of categories?
7. Of the following, which most accurately describes characteristics of written paragraphs with inadequate development?
8. Researchers have found which of these relative to understanding how students learn vocabulary?
9. Plot structure must include symmetry to be sound, according to Aristotle. Symmetry can be created through recurring patterns. Which of the following works uses a pattern involving a history of similar events, rather than a pattern of similar behaviors by a character?
10. Of the following, which version of the sentence is correct grammatically?
11. 'Because he was late, he missed the field trip, and this caused him to fail the class.' In this sentence which numbers and kinds of clauses are included?
12. Suppose an informational text on English grammar presents a series of sentences with errors, e.g., lack of subject-verb agreement, and then one or more alternative versions for each that correct or eliminate those errors. Which of these text structures does this most resemble?
13. What correctly identifies an example of how writers develop the body of a written essay or other composition?
14. Which of these is accurate about what readers should do to facilitate critically evaluating the effectiveness of methods of appeal used by informational text authors?
15. Which of the following most accurately describes a theme found in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby?
16. Aristotle wrote in his Poetics about parts of a plot structure. His Greek term peripateia identified which of the following parts?
17. Which of the following types of novels are NOT frequently written in the epistolary genre?
18. Which of the following statements is most accurate about the second-person narrative voice or point of view?
19. The phrases 'jumbo shrimp' or 'deafening silence' are examples of which rhetorical device?
20. Which textual evidence in the passage provides first an explicit, and then an implicit, foreshadowing of later text not included here?
21. In William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily, he uses dust throughout as a motif to represent which of the following? Select all choices that apply.
22. Regarding writing outlines before writing essays, articles, or papers, which of these is true?
23. What is generally the purpose of the roman à clef form in novels and other literature?
24. In evaluating the effectiveness of different vocabulary teaching methods with young children, what have investigators found about teacher questions?
25. When authors use rhetoric to support their points of view and/or purposes in informational text, by which of these means can they best provide supporting evidence?