Praxis English Language Arts: Content and Analysis (5039) Exam Guide 2024

Maya Angelou () - 20th century African-American writer, poet and activist. Best-known for her work "I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings". Jane Austen () - English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Known for Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma Ray Bradbury () - A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemmas, including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. Willa Cather () - American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. Stephen Crane () - American novelist and short story author in a realist or impressionist vein. Stylistically characterized by vivid intensity, distinctive dialects, and irony. Common themes involve fear, spiritual crises and social isolation. Recognized primarily for The Red Badge of Courage. Emily Dickinson () - American poet who, despite spending life as a recluse, created a vivid inner world through poetry, exploring themes of nature, love, death and immortality. Refusing to publish during her lifetime, she left behind nearly two thousand poems, which were published after her death. Ralph Waldo Emerson () - Essayist, poet. A leading transcendentalist, emphasizing freedom and self-reliance in essays which still make him a force today. He had an international reputation as a first-rate poet. He spoke and wrote many works on the behalf of the Abolitionists. F. Scott Fitzgerald () - American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited. Anne Frank () - Dutch-Jewish girl who, with other Jews, hid from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944; kept a diary of her family's life in hiding after the Nazis overran the Netherlands. She was later found and sent to a concentration camp where she died. Robert Frost () - American poet known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech; frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. Fire and Ice, The Road Not Taken. Zora Neale Hurston () - An American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Her stylistic choices in terms of dialogue were influenced by her academic experiences; she strove to represent speech patterns of the period which she documented through ethnographic research. Their Eyes Were Watching God. John Keats () - One of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement, who endured major criticism during his lifetime and was posthumously defended by figures like Shelley, who helps raise his status. Dies from tuberculosis at 25. Ode upon a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Endymion. C. S. Lewis () - British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters. Harper Lee () - American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Harlem Renaissance - 1. an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. 2. Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes 3. Approx. 1918 - mid-1930s British Romantics - 1. Era of major social change in England, due to depopulation of the countryside and rapid development of overcrowded industrial cities that took place roughly between 1798 and 1832. Huge focus on writing about and personifying nature. 2. John Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, William Blake 3. Peaked Metaphysical Poets - 1. poets whose works are marked by philosophical exploration, colloquial diction, ingenious conceits, irony, and metrically flexible lines; the inclusion of contemporary scientific advancements were also typical 2. John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert Transcendentalism - 1. a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States. It arose as a reaction, to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time; belief that each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau