Praxis II 5038 made from ETS practice
exam 2023-2024
Sonnet - fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is written in
iambic penta... [Show More] meter.
Ode - a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in
style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
Ballad - Anonymous narrative poems; the ballad stanza is a four-line stanza of
alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines with a rhyme of abab or abcb. a poem or song
narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown
authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the
folk culture.
Elegy - a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Chorus - or refrain, line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse
persona - the way you behave, talk, etc., with other people that causes them to see you
as a particular kind of person : the image or personality that a person presents to other
people
genre - a particular type or category of literature or art
protagonist - main character
antagonist - opposing character
Ayn Rand - Anthem deals mainly with the main character's struggle to break free of his
collectivist society and become an individual.
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye; Beloved
Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Maxine Hong Kingston - The Woman Warrior
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God; Sweat (1926)
Anticipation Guide - a series of questions that students are asked to respond to (usually
by marking "Agree" or "Disagree") before a particular unit or lesson is begun. After the
unit or lesson, the students review their answers to the anticipation guide and reflect on
what they know or understand better.
Semantic feature analysis - strategy that uses a grid to help kids explore how sets of
things are related to one another. By completing and analyzing the grid, students are
able to see connections, make predictions and master important concepts. This strategy
enhances comprehension and vocabulary skills.
Reciprocal teaching - an instructional activity in which students become the teacher in
small group reading sessions. Teachers model, then help students learn to guide group
discussions using four strategies: summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and
predicting.
Background building - the knowledge students have, learned both formally in the
classroom as well as informally through life experiences.
Classic Haiku - five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
The second line in this poem is short one syllable.
Nathaniel Hawthorne - an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer.
Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral
allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the
Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often center
on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and
deep psychological complexity. The House of the Seven Gables, Twice-Told Tales, The
Scarlet Letter.
Joseph Conrad - wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials
of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century
realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors,
including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and Salman Rushdie
James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Mohicans. prolific and popular American
writer of the early 19th century.
His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a
unique form of American literature.
Both "Hawkeye" and "Leather-Stocking" were nicknames of Natty Bumppo, the pioneer
hero of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), known collectively as the
Leather-Stocking Tales.
Herman Melville - American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American
Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic account of his
experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). He developed
a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm
infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic, and the
abundance of allusion extends to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual
arts.
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