Nes Elementary Education Subtest Questions And Solutions

NES elementary education subtest 1; english language arts part


Question 1.
area of study that involves mechanics, usage, and sentence formation

ANSWER
spelling conventions



Question 2.
spelling, punctuation, capitalization

ANSWER
mechanics



Question 3.
breaking down of words into morphemes and word units to discover meaning

ANSWER
word analysis



Question 4.
smallest unit of meaning

ANSWER
morphemes



Question 5.
relationship between a letter and sound

ANSWER
phonics



Question 6.
qualitative, quantitative, and reader & task

ANSWER
measure of text's complexity



Question 7.
Pre-writing, Organizing, Writing a rough draft, Evaluating, Revise & rewrite

ANSWER
POWER method






, Question 8.
author's appeal to reader's emotions

ANSWER
Pathos



Question 9.
author's level of creditability

ANSWER
Ethos



Question 10.
author's appeal to reader's logic

ANSWER
Logos



Question 11.
most opportune moment to do something in writing

ANSWER
Kairos



Question 12.
scribbling, letter-like symbols, strings of letters, emergence of beginning sounds, words represented by consonants, initial middle and
final sounds, transitional phase, standard spelling

ANSWER
developmental writing stages



Question 13.
extreme exaggeration to strongly state point of evoke a specific emotion

ANSWER
hyperbole



Question 14.
word, phrase, or sentence that are expressed figuratively, but carry a literal meaning readers must infer

ANSWER
idioms



Question 15.
giving inanimate objects qualities to intimidate human qualities

ANSWER
personification