PRAXIS 5156 EXAM WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
Practice questions for this set
Learn Study with Learn
"novel with a key", needs a real-life frame reference; need to know details not known in
book. "Canterbury Tales, A Tale of a Tub, Animal Farm (cannot be understood without
knowing their camouflaged historical contents)
Choose an answer
1 Informational Text 2 Implicit
3 4 Nonfictional persuasive Text
Don't know?
Terms in this set (124)
Informational Text Uses both literal language and figurative language. Might use a simile or metaphors
Denotation Literal meaning or dictionary definition
Connotation Feelings or thoughts associated with a word not included in its definition
Nonfictional Expository Text Reader would best draw inferences about problems and their solutions
, Nonfictional persuasive Text Infer ideas supporting the authors message
one student summarizes and the other has to agree/disagree and explain why. Agree
Paired strategy
on main idea of text and then roles reverse
text monitoring, read short sections and make notations on post it notes, make
Text Coding
codes such as ? or * that signify their problem
Appendix Back of book
Captions below or beside illustrations
Glossaries technical terms alphabetically listed with their definitions
Index back of book, list books important topics alphabetically with their page numbers
Explicit reader is told by the author exactly
Implicit Did not state, must be inferenced
Anecdote brief story authors may relate which illustrates their point in a relatable way
Aphorisms State common beliefs and may rhyme (Early to bed, early to rise...)
literary or historical figures to impart symbolism to a thing and create reader
Allusions
resonance
Parody form of satire that imitates another work to ridicule its topic or satire
Paradox statement that is true despite appearing contradictory
Overstatement using exaggerated language; excessive exaggeration used for humor
Hyperbole
or emphasiscommunicates strength of the poets feelings
Oxymoron combines seeming contradictions
Analogies compares two things sharing some common elements
Similies comparisons using the words "like" or "As"
Metaphors implied comparison that does not use "like" or "as"
Syllogism deductive reasoning or a subtle argument
Deductive reasoning moves from general to specific
Inductive reasoning moves from specific to general
Diction author word choice establishing tone and effects
Uses parallel clauses, the second reversing the order of the first (ask not what your
Chiasmus
country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country...)
Anaphora Regularly repeats a word or phrase at the beginnings of clauses or phrases
To evaluate persuasive methods identify author thesis, note central ideas and evidence, outline
suffering or experience and refers to appeals to the emotions( making them happy
Pathos
with comedy or say with tragedy)
Ethos character and connotes ideology (appeals to credibility...)
Logos I say; refers to a plea, opinion, opinion, or reasoning
Primary purpose is to communicate a message that non-technical readers will
Technical material
understand
Main Idea of Text what the reader is supposed to understand from reading it
Purpose of text why the author has written it
"After this, therefore because of this" aka because X happened before Y, X must have
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
caused Y
Practice questions for this set
Learn Study with Learn
"novel with a key", needs a real-life frame reference; need to know details not known in
book. "Canterbury Tales, A Tale of a Tub, Animal Farm (cannot be understood without
knowing their camouflaged historical contents)
Choose an answer
1 Informational Text 2 Implicit
3 4 Nonfictional persuasive Text
Don't know?
Terms in this set (124)
Informational Text Uses both literal language and figurative language. Might use a simile or metaphors
Denotation Literal meaning or dictionary definition
Connotation Feelings or thoughts associated with a word not included in its definition
Nonfictional Expository Text Reader would best draw inferences about problems and their solutions
, Nonfictional persuasive Text Infer ideas supporting the authors message
one student summarizes and the other has to agree/disagree and explain why. Agree
Paired strategy
on main idea of text and then roles reverse
text monitoring, read short sections and make notations on post it notes, make
Text Coding
codes such as ? or * that signify their problem
Appendix Back of book
Captions below or beside illustrations
Glossaries technical terms alphabetically listed with their definitions
Index back of book, list books important topics alphabetically with their page numbers
Explicit reader is told by the author exactly
Implicit Did not state, must be inferenced
Anecdote brief story authors may relate which illustrates their point in a relatable way
Aphorisms State common beliefs and may rhyme (Early to bed, early to rise...)
literary or historical figures to impart symbolism to a thing and create reader
Allusions
resonance
Parody form of satire that imitates another work to ridicule its topic or satire
Paradox statement that is true despite appearing contradictory
Overstatement using exaggerated language; excessive exaggeration used for humor
Hyperbole
or emphasiscommunicates strength of the poets feelings
Oxymoron combines seeming contradictions
Analogies compares two things sharing some common elements
Similies comparisons using the words "like" or "As"
Metaphors implied comparison that does not use "like" or "as"
Syllogism deductive reasoning or a subtle argument
Deductive reasoning moves from general to specific
Inductive reasoning moves from specific to general
Diction author word choice establishing tone and effects
Uses parallel clauses, the second reversing the order of the first (ask not what your
Chiasmus
country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country...)
Anaphora Regularly repeats a word or phrase at the beginnings of clauses or phrases
To evaluate persuasive methods identify author thesis, note central ideas and evidence, outline
suffering or experience and refers to appeals to the emotions( making them happy
Pathos
with comedy or say with tragedy)
Ethos character and connotes ideology (appeals to credibility...)
Logos I say; refers to a plea, opinion, opinion, or reasoning
Primary purpose is to communicate a message that non-technical readers will
Technical material
understand
Main Idea of Text what the reader is supposed to understand from reading it
Purpose of text why the author has written it
"After this, therefore because of this" aka because X happened before Y, X must have
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
caused Y
