TSIA2 English Language Arts and Reading Vocabulary Flashcards

Flashcards covering key terms, historical facts, scientific concepts, and grammatical rules derived from the TSIA2 ELAR sample questions and passages.

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TSIA2 English Language Arts and Reading (ELAR) test

An assessment covering four main categories: literary text analysis, informational text analysis and synthesis, essay revision and editing, and sentence revision, editing, and completion.

Literary text analysis

A reading-focused test category covering explicit information, inferences, author’s craft, and vocabulary.

Informational text analysis and synthesis

A reading-focused test category covering main ideas, supporting details, inferences, author’s craft, vocabulary, and synthesis of paired argumentative passages.

Nabiganj

The fashionable street in the fictional town of Brahmpur where the Imperial Book Depot was located.

Ganjing

A term used by university students in Brahmpur to describe the activity of wandering around Nabiganj and visiting a coffee house once a week.

Salwaar-kameez

A traditional Indian garment mentioned in the passage from Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy.

Telecommuters

Off-site employees who work from home; research suggests they may be 13% more productive and work longer hours than in-office counterparts.

Vulcanite

A type of rubber used in the 18th and 19th centuries as a base for mounting denture plates featuring ivory or porcelain teeth.

American copyright laws

Laws that prohibit the use, distribution, or adaptation of another’s product without permission.

Copyright Act of 1790

A federal law that allowed copyright protection for 14 years with one 14-year extension allowed if the author survived the first term.

Copyright Act of 1976

A federal law that extended copyright protection to 75 years.

Edible insect initiative

An effort to include bugs in the daily diet as a low-impact environmental alternative to raising livestock.

Nosferatu

A 1922 German Expressionist film directed by F. W. Murnau that is considered a classic vampire movie based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Prana Film

The small studio that produced Nosferatu and went bankrupt to dodge copyright lawsuits from Bram Stoker’s widow.

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

A substance used in water-carrying pipes in the United States, accidentally discovered in 1835 by Henri Victor Regnault.

Tutti-Frutti

A chewing gum manufactured by the Thomas Adams Gum Company and sold in the first coin-operated vending machines in the United States in 1888.

Noah Webster

An American figure who used his dictionary and writings to legitimize 'American English' independent of British spelling and pronunciation.

Schistocerca gregaria

The scientific name for the desert locust, which can damage populations across three continents by consuming its body weight in food each day.

Portico

A covered colonnaded space connected to public or religious structures in classical Rome, from which the word 'porch' derives.

Loggias

Recessed front entryways built into the ground floor of Venetian canal houses that served as a starting point for American-style porches.

Andrea Palladio

A 17th-century Venetian architect who popularized the loggia throughout Europe.

Primary olfactory cortex

The region of the brain used for smells that lights up when subjects look at words such as 'perfume'.

Sensory cortex

The part of the brain responsible for perceiving texture through touch.

Motor cortex

The part of the brain that coordinates the body’s movements, which activates when reading sentences about physical actions like kicking a ball.

Comma splice

A grammatical error in which two independent clauses are improperly joined with only a comma.