English Language Arts Content Knowledge (5038) test with complete solution 2023

English Language Arts Content Knowledge (5038) Simile - Compares two unlike things using the words 'like', or 'as'. For example, the dog smells like dirty socks. Metaphor - Compares two unlike things without using the words 'like' or 'as'. In the image, life is being compared to a pathway that meanders. Life is not a straightforward path. Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds to create rhyme in phrases or sentences. Alliteration - The repetition of a consonant. It helps create effect, tone and mood within a text. Personification - An object, idea or animal is given human attributes. In the movie 'Cars' the vehicles are designed with human characteristics. Protagonist - The central or leading character in a story. Harry Potter would be the leading character in the Harry Potter series. Antagonist - A character or group of characters that oppose the leading or central character. For example, Darth Vader opposes Luke Skywalker in 'Star Wars'. Foreshadowing - The author hints what is to come in the unfolding story. This helps to avoid disappointment or to arouse interest in the reader. Oxymoron - When two opposing words are placed side by side to create an effect. For example: pretty ugly, civil war, awfully good. Suspense - A feeling of fascination or excitement mixed with fear, apprehension or tension. This device is usually used in mystery stories or movies. Allusion - A brief and indirect reference to a person, historical event, cultural event, political event or idea. The author only refers to the concept and the reader is expected to know it or research it. Diction - The words and sentences an author uses to craft his or her work. This enables each piece of literature to be unique, effective and correct. Red Herring - A misleading clue. An event or character intended to divert the reader away from a significant or important piece of the plot. Hyperbole - An exaggeration of an idea. For example: He is as big as an elephant. Understatement - A writer deliberately makes a situation less important or serious as it really is. Pun - A humorous play on words that suggest more than one meaning. Exploiting multiple meanings of words. For example: Some aquatic mammals at the zoo escaped. It was otter chaos. Onomatopoeia - A word that resembles or imitates a sound. Point of View - The perspective from which a writer presents or recounts his or her story. First person point of view - The words 'I' or 'we' is used to narrate the story. For example: I walked down the road and saw a rabbit run across the road. Second person point of view - The word 'you' is used. The writer controls all of the information and the reader has little input into the story or information. For example: You open your eyes and the sun is already in the sky. Third person omniscient point of view - The words 'she', and 'he' is used in this narrative form. This point of view tells the reader what two or more characters are talking about. The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story. Third person limited point of view - The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character in a story. The narrator refers to the characters as 'he', or 'she'. Analogy - Comparing two objects for the purpose of explaining something. For example: a heart and a pump. Imagery - The authors use of vivid words and descriptions to help the reader create an image in his or her mind. Often times all senses are used to create imagery. Symbol - An object that represents or stands for an idea, belief or action. A heart is a sign of love. Theme - The central topic or idea of a text. For example: the central topic of 'Lord of the Flies' is survival. Flat character/static character - A minor character in fiction that does not undergo any changes. They are one dimensional and lack emotional depth. Round character - A character that has complex personality and clear human traits. Dynamic character - A complex character that undergoes a significant change. For example: Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a change from being very selfish to very giving. Foil - A character who attempts to prevent another character (usually the protagonist) from achieving success. Setting - The location and time frame in which a narrative takes place. Characters are often dependent on the location and time for their development. Irony - Intended words have a different meaning that what is actually being said. Dramatic irony - The audience knows more about the present or future circumstances than the characters themselves. Literal language - The most obvious and straightforward production of a text. There is no hidden or metaphorical meanings in the text. Figurative language - Language that uses several different literary devices such as similes and metaphors. It is open to interpretation and is more poetic in style. James Fenimore Cooper - First novel 1820 - famous series - Leatherstocking Tales (5) incl. The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), The Deerslayer (1841). First book was Precaution, which attempted to Satirize Jane Austen's novels. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper - 1826 Main character- Natty Bumppo -nickname: Hawkeye - brave and resourceful woodsman armed with unerringly long rifle. Setting: 1757, Upstate NY, Seven Yrs. War. Romantic Allegory- symbolizes Native American removal from the land. Heightened formal rhetoric Harriet Beecher Stowe - Born in CT 1811- Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in outraged response to Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Story of a slave sold from Kentucky into a life of danger and uncertainty. Embolden by his abiding faith - allows him to forgive his final slave master's torture. Rescues Eva, white girl, whose father buys him and intends to emancipate him after Eva's death, but is killed before he can. Sold to evil Simon Legree eventually dies a martyrs death. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain. 1884. First time American vernacular, dialect in a book. Mock-epic tale of American Democracy. Intended to be sequel to Tom Sawyer. Plot is more connected set of adventures. Main Character, Huck, whose worst experience is having drunken father return. Runs away, faking his own death, goes to Jackson's Island, meets Jim, a runaway slave. Avi - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Nothing But the Truth Crispin 1984 - Written by George Orwell (which is is the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair), announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all-power elite; key phrases: Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak, the Ministry of Peace...Truth...Love Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins The Black Pearl Over Sea, Under Stone Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Wuthering Heights is the only published novel by this aurthor. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. Jane Eyre is this author's sister. Today Wuthering Heights is considered a classic of English literature Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell. Virgil - was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him. This poet is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. The Aeneid - is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. *A Trojan destined to found Rome, undergoes many trials on land and sea during his journey to Italy, finally defeating the Latin Turnus and avenging the murder of Pallas Alice In Wonderland - children's novel; fantasy The story is about a girl who falls asleep and dreams of a series of adventures. Animal Farm - a novel written by George Orwell about a group of animals who mount a successful rebellion against the farmer who rules them, but their dreams of equality for all are ruined when one pig seizes power; novella, dystopian animal fable The Pigman - Written by Paul Zindel, first published in 1968 The novel begins with Lorraine's delinquent friend named John. signed by John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, two high school sophomores, which pledge that they will report only the facts about their experiences with the principal Sonnet 18 - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;" This has a couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme by William Shakespeare Plath - The Bell Jar; born during the great depression The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath- was an American poet, novelist and short story writer who wrote this novel. It is about a young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies Beowulf - is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literaturea. great warrior, goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel; he returns home to Geatland, where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying; poem; alliterative verse, elegy, small scale heroic epic; author unknown; setting around 500 AD The Call of the Wild - Jack London wrote this novel about a pampered dog (Buck) and how he adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel, adventure story, setting late 1890s Crime and Punishment - is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It Is a novel about an attempt to prove a theory. A student (Raskolnikov) murders two women, after which he suffers greatly from guilt and worry; psychological drama, setting in the 1860s.