Praxis II 5038 made from ETS practice exam

Praxis II 5038 made from ETS practice exam Sonnet - fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is written in iambic pentameter. 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 (), 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. Dashiell Hammett -...