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Praxis 5047 Middle school english EXAM
(2025/2026) Updated: EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT
"Ship of State" Metaphor - . . ANSWER ✓✓ First used by Alcaeus
3-2-1 prompt - . . ANSWER ✓✓ 3 facts
2 questions
1 personal connection
5 Classroom practices to improve teen literacy - . . ANSWER ✓✓
1. Give explicit instruction in vocabulary. 2. Give explicit and direct
instruction and strategies for reading comprehension. 3. Give
teenage students opportunities to engage in discussions about
the meaning and interpretation of what they read. 4 enhance
student engagement and motivation for literacy learning. 5.
Provide specialized and intensive interventions to help students
who are struggling with reading
5 Effective instructional methods and academic literacy for
adolescents - . . ANSWER ✓✓ 1. Give students explicit instruction
and supportive practice throughout the school day in using
effective reading comprehension strategies. 2. Use a higher
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quantity and quality of open discussion about the content they
are reading. 3. Establish and sustain high standards for students
in the text that they read, the vocabulary they learn and use, the
questions they are asked, and the conversations they have. 4.
Enhance their motivation and engagement with reading. 5. Teach
them content knowledge essential for them to master concepts
critical to their understanding and success
Abstract Language - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Language describing ideas
and qualities, not concrete things. Avoid in writing descriptions.
Example: "it was a lovely day."
Activate Prior Knowledge - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Reading strategy:
readers pay more attention when they relate to the text and
comprehend better when they think about the connections they
make between the text, their lives, and the larger world.
Activating (strategy 1) - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Activating the reader's
previously existing background knowledge. Reader recalls from
his or her memory past experiences and existing knowledge
that's relevant to the current reading. Applies this information
and understanding to make it easier to drive and construct
meaning from the information in the new text.
active listening - . . ANSWER ✓✓ A listener fully concentrates,
understands, responds to, and remembers what is said
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ad hominem attack - . . ANSWER ✓✓ A personal attack on the
character or personal traits of your opponent rather than an
argument against his/her ideas.
adult stage - . . ANSWER ✓✓ final stage of Chomsky's language
acquistion
Affix - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Morphemes that are added to words to
create related but different words.
Agatha - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Poem written by Mary Ann Evans under
the nom de plume George Eliot. Evans used the pseudonym in
order to be taken seriously and protect her privacy.
Alice Walker - . . ANSWER ✓✓ American author who wrote "The
Color Purple" in 1982, self-declared feminist and womanist; won
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Allegory - . . ANSWER ✓✓ A literary work in which characters,
objects, or actions represent abstractions.
allegory - . . ANSWER ✓✓ literary sub genre of stories: a story in
which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside
the tale itself.
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Alliteration - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Repetition of consonant sounds
alliteration - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Repetition of initial consonant
sounds in two or more words in a sentence. For example: steep,
straight, stretch
Allusion - . . ANSWER ✓✓ an expression designed to call
something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or
passing reference. "A sort of Hercules in strength and in
weakness"
Ambiguous - . . ANSWER ✓✓ open to more than one
interpretation
American Colonial Period - . . ANSWER ✓✓ 1630-1760: Colonial
and revolutionary writers: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson,
Thomas Paine, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan
Edwards, and Captain John Smith.
American Literary Naturalism - . . ANSWER ✓✓ the thematic
treatment of atavism, evolution, degeneration, and the
development of force/ the scientific method. Naturalism also
focuses on Human vs Nature and Human vs Himself. "The Red
Badge of Courage," "The Open Boat," "House of Mirth," and "The
Call of the Wild."
Praxis 5047 Middle school english EXAM
(2025/2026) Updated: EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT
"Ship of State" Metaphor - . . ANSWER ✓✓ First used by Alcaeus
3-2-1 prompt - . . ANSWER ✓✓ 3 facts
2 questions
1 personal connection
5 Classroom practices to improve teen literacy - . . ANSWER ✓✓
1. Give explicit instruction in vocabulary. 2. Give explicit and direct
instruction and strategies for reading comprehension. 3. Give
teenage students opportunities to engage in discussions about
the meaning and interpretation of what they read. 4 enhance
student engagement and motivation for literacy learning. 5.
Provide specialized and intensive interventions to help students
who are struggling with reading
5 Effective instructional methods and academic literacy for
adolescents - . . ANSWER ✓✓ 1. Give students explicit instruction
and supportive practice throughout the school day in using
effective reading comprehension strategies. 2. Use a higher
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quantity and quality of open discussion about the content they
are reading. 3. Establish and sustain high standards for students
in the text that they read, the vocabulary they learn and use, the
questions they are asked, and the conversations they have. 4.
Enhance their motivation and engagement with reading. 5. Teach
them content knowledge essential for them to master concepts
critical to their understanding and success
Abstract Language - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Language describing ideas
and qualities, not concrete things. Avoid in writing descriptions.
Example: "it was a lovely day."
Activate Prior Knowledge - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Reading strategy:
readers pay more attention when they relate to the text and
comprehend better when they think about the connections they
make between the text, their lives, and the larger world.
Activating (strategy 1) - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Activating the reader's
previously existing background knowledge. Reader recalls from
his or her memory past experiences and existing knowledge
that's relevant to the current reading. Applies this information
and understanding to make it easier to drive and construct
meaning from the information in the new text.
active listening - . . ANSWER ✓✓ A listener fully concentrates,
understands, responds to, and remembers what is said
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ad hominem attack - . . ANSWER ✓✓ A personal attack on the
character or personal traits of your opponent rather than an
argument against his/her ideas.
adult stage - . . ANSWER ✓✓ final stage of Chomsky's language
acquistion
Affix - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Morphemes that are added to words to
create related but different words.
Agatha - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Poem written by Mary Ann Evans under
the nom de plume George Eliot. Evans used the pseudonym in
order to be taken seriously and protect her privacy.
Alice Walker - . . ANSWER ✓✓ American author who wrote "The
Color Purple" in 1982, self-declared feminist and womanist; won
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Allegory - . . ANSWER ✓✓ A literary work in which characters,
objects, or actions represent abstractions.
allegory - . . ANSWER ✓✓ literary sub genre of stories: a story in
which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside
the tale itself.
, 4|Page
Alliteration - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Repetition of consonant sounds
alliteration - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Repetition of initial consonant
sounds in two or more words in a sentence. For example: steep,
straight, stretch
Allusion - . . ANSWER ✓✓ an expression designed to call
something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or
passing reference. "A sort of Hercules in strength and in
weakness"
Ambiguous - . . ANSWER ✓✓ open to more than one
interpretation
American Colonial Period - . . ANSWER ✓✓ 1630-1760: Colonial
and revolutionary writers: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson,
Thomas Paine, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan
Edwards, and Captain John Smith.
American Literary Naturalism - . . ANSWER ✓✓ the thematic
treatment of atavism, evolution, degeneration, and the
development of force/ the scientific method. Naturalism also
focuses on Human vs Nature and Human vs Himself. "The Red
Badge of Courage," "The Open Boat," "House of Mirth," and "The
Call of the Wild."
