Praxis 5047 Study Guide (Vocabulary, authors, and facts from official ETS practice test)-Q&A
Literary Nonfiction vivid description, authorial voice, and compelling structure
The Kite Runner Author Khaled Hosseini
The Call of the Wild Author Jack London
The City of Ember Author Jeanne Duprau
The Book Thief Author Markus Zusak
Purpose of good dialogue Advances the story, moved the plot, develops character,
develops theme, and can account for passage of time.
William Blake English Romantic painter, poet, and printmaker; reverent to the Bible but
hostile to the Church of England.
Formative Assessment Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to
gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
William Faulkner Greatest author of southern US literature
, 1949 Nobel prize
.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure of Anglo-
Irish Protestant Ancestry, one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival and co-
founder of the Abbey Theatre. Yeats also served as an Irish Senator. Draws heavily on the Irish
landscape and on the country's native mythology, with a marked turn toward contemporary
social issues in his later years.
Know: The Second Coming, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to
Byzantium, Leda and the Swan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet, Romantic, literary critic and
philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic
Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets (as well as coauthor of the Lyrical
Ballads!). He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla
Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on
Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to
English-speaking culture.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Famous after death.
One of the major English Romantic poets most famous for such classic anthology verse works as
"Ozymandias", Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud
and The Masque of Anarchy. His major works, however, are long visionary poems which
included Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of
Literary Nonfiction vivid description, authorial voice, and compelling structure
The Kite Runner Author Khaled Hosseini
The Call of the Wild Author Jack London
The City of Ember Author Jeanne Duprau
The Book Thief Author Markus Zusak
Purpose of good dialogue Advances the story, moved the plot, develops character,
develops theme, and can account for passage of time.
William Blake English Romantic painter, poet, and printmaker; reverent to the Bible but
hostile to the Church of England.
Formative Assessment Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to
gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching
William Faulkner Greatest author of southern US literature
, 1949 Nobel prize
.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure of Anglo-
Irish Protestant Ancestry, one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival and co-
founder of the Abbey Theatre. Yeats also served as an Irish Senator. Draws heavily on the Irish
landscape and on the country's native mythology, with a marked turn toward contemporary
social issues in his later years.
Know: The Second Coming, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, Sailing to
Byzantium, Leda and the Swan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet, Romantic, literary critic and
philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic
Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets (as well as coauthor of the Lyrical
Ballads!). He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla
Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on
Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to
English-speaking culture.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Famous after death.
One of the major English Romantic poets most famous for such classic anthology verse works as
"Ozymandias", Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud
and The Masque of Anarchy. His major works, however, are long visionary poems which
included Queen Mab (later reworked as The Daemon of the World), Alastor, The Revolt of
