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CSET English Practice Test 2
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1. In which of the following books and book series does the author alternate the narrative voice from first person to third person when describing action scenes, especially those not involving the narrator?
2. Differences in form between the Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet include which of these?
3. Of the following, which most accurately describes characteristics of written paragraphs with inadequate development?
4. To present information clearly in a written speech, which of these applies?
5. Related to the reader's process of identifying author purposes in writing informational text, which of these is correct?
6. Which of these is an example of using a metaphor in
7. Which of these is most accurate about functions dialogue can serve in fictional literature?
8. Regarding writing outlines before writing essays, articles, or papers, which of these is true?
9. Suppose someone writes an expository essay arguing against legalizing one specific drug, basing this argument on the premise that its legalization will cause all other drugs also to be legalized. What is the rhetorical name of the logical fallacy involved?
10. 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?
11. Which of these is true about the MLA, APA, and Chicago style manuals relative to citing papers, electronic journals, magazine articles, and websites?
12. 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?
13. The novel Pamela by Samuel Richardson (1740) is an example of which novelistic form?
14. In these professors' descriptions of how some students reacted to administering an assessment in a practicum situation, which would represent implicit rather than explicit meaning in an informational text?
15. In a play, when an actor says something that informs the audience while other characters appear not to hear it, what is the correct terminology for this?
16. Concerning how to deliver speeches effectively, which statement is correct?
17. When writing the conclusions of essays, which of these should a writer do?
18. Where is the thesis statement of an essay most often found?
19. In his famous poem 'The Tyger' (1794), William Blake begins: 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright/In the forests of the night,/What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?' How does William Blake use structure here to contribute to the meaning?
20. Using Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, students assigned the active reading strategy of two-column notes would place which of these clauses or phrases in which column?
21. Which of the following will help readers analyze informational text to identify author point of view or purpose when the author does not state this explicitly?
22. Among the following major types of conflicts typically included in literary plots, which one is classified as an internal conflict?
23. Of the following, which version of the sentence is correct grammatically?
24. Of the following sentences, which one uses metaphors to create figurative meanings?
25. Regarding the reading strategy of summarizing text, which of the following is most accurate about what will help students support their reading comprehension?