Praxis 5047 (Middle school ELA test) Questions
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Quatrain A four line stanza or poem
a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name
of one object or concept for that of another to which
Metonymy it is related, or of which it is a part, as "scepter" for
"sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or
"count heads (or noses)" for "count people."
a graphical organizer: what students already KNOW,
KWL chart
WANT to know, and what they LEARN
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject,
Tone
or a character
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the
Mood
reader
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds
Sonnet 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
an episodic novel about a rogue-like wanderer who
picaresque novel
lives off his wits. Like Don Quixote
a suspenseful story that usually features a gloomy
gothic novel
setting and supernatural occurrences
, Novels that explore characters' motivations.
Psychological novel Originated in 17th century France. Madame Bovary
and Anna Karenina.
Fictional stories that observe, explore, and analyze
the social behaviors of a specific time and place.
Novels of manners Characteristics of these novels include descriptions of
a society with defined behavioral codes. Jane Austin is
an example.
Originated in Romanticism. Novels with elements of
emotional love and/or elements of sentimentality.
sentimental novels
Erich Segal's Love Story novel turned into a movie is
an example
A novel that tells its story through letters written from
one character to another. Samuel Richardson is the
epistolary novel best known author of these. His novels include Pamela
and Clarissa. Apparently, so is Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein.
Novels and poetry that lyrically idealize country life
as idyllic and utopian, akin to the garden of Eden.
Pastoral novels
Shakespeare's As You Like It was based on Thomas
Lodges's Rosalynde
German for "education novel." Also used in English to
describe apprenticeship novels focusing on coming
of age stories, including youths' struggles and
searches for things such as identity, spiritual
Bildungsroman
understanding, or the meaning in life. Novels like
David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Siddhartha, A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Catcher in the
Rye, and the Lord of the Flies.
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Terms in this set (213)
Quatrain A four line stanza or poem
a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name
of one object or concept for that of another to which
Metonymy it is related, or of which it is a part, as "scepter" for
"sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or
"count heads (or noses)" for "count people."
a graphical organizer: what students already KNOW,
KWL chart
WANT to know, and what they LEARN
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject,
Tone
or a character
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the
Mood
reader
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds
Sonnet 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
an episodic novel about a rogue-like wanderer who
picaresque novel
lives off his wits. Like Don Quixote
a suspenseful story that usually features a gloomy
gothic novel
setting and supernatural occurrences
, Novels that explore characters' motivations.
Psychological novel Originated in 17th century France. Madame Bovary
and Anna Karenina.
Fictional stories that observe, explore, and analyze
the social behaviors of a specific time and place.
Novels of manners Characteristics of these novels include descriptions of
a society with defined behavioral codes. Jane Austin is
an example.
Originated in Romanticism. Novels with elements of
emotional love and/or elements of sentimentality.
sentimental novels
Erich Segal's Love Story novel turned into a movie is
an example
A novel that tells its story through letters written from
one character to another. Samuel Richardson is the
epistolary novel best known author of these. His novels include Pamela
and Clarissa. Apparently, so is Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein.
Novels and poetry that lyrically idealize country life
as idyllic and utopian, akin to the garden of Eden.
Pastoral novels
Shakespeare's As You Like It was based on Thomas
Lodges's Rosalynde
German for "education novel." Also used in English to
describe apprenticeship novels focusing on coming
of age stories, including youths' struggles and
searches for things such as identity, spiritual
Bildungsroman
understanding, or the meaning in life. Novels like
David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Siddhartha, A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Catcher in the
Rye, and the Lord of the Flies.
