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practice exam |Questions And
Answers
Sonnet - -fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is
written in iambic pentameter.
- Ode - -a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often
elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
- Ballad - -Anonymous narrative poems; the ballad stanza is a four-line
stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines with a rhyme of abab or
abcb. a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads
are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one
generation to the next as part of the folk culture.
- Elegy - -a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
- Chorus - -or refrain, line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse
- persona - -the way you behave, talk, etc., with other people that causes
them to see you as a particular kind of person : the image or personality that
a person presents to other people
- genre - -a particular type or category of literature or art
- protagonist - -main character
- antagonist - -opposing character
- Ayn Rand - -Anthem deals mainly with the main character's struggle to
break free of his collectivist society and become an individual.
- Chinua Achebe - -Things Fall Apart
- William Golding - -Lord of the Flies
- Toni Morrison - -The Bluest Eye; Beloved
- Amy Tan - -The Joy Luck Club
- Alice Walker - -The Color Purple
,- Maxine Hong Kingston - -The Woman Warrior
- Zora Neale Hurston - -Their Eyes Were Watching God; Sweat (1926)
- Anticipation Guide - -a series of questions that students are asked to
respond to (usually by marking "Agree" or "Disagree") before a particular
unit or lesson is begun. After the unit or lesson, the students review their
answers to the anticipation guide and reflect on what they know or
understand better.
- Semantic feature analysis - -strategy that uses a grid to help kids explore
how sets of things are related to one another. By completing and analyzing
the grid, students are able to see connections, make predictions and master
important concepts. This strategy enhances comprehension and vocabulary
skills.
- Reciprocal teaching - -an instructional activity in which students become
the teacher in small group reading sessions. Teachers model, then help
students learn to guide group discussions using four strategies:
summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting.
- Background building - -the knowledge students have, learned both
formally in the classroom as well as informally through life experiences.
- Classic Haiku - -five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five
in the third. The second line in this poem is short one syllable.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - -an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short
story writer. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many
works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works
are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark
romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of
humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological
complexity. The House of the Seven Gables, Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet
Letter.
- Joseph Conrad - -wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting,
that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable
universe.
considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of
19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have
influenced many authors, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham
Greene, and Salman Rushdie
- James Fenimore Cooper - -The Last of the Mohicans. prolific and popular
American writer of the early 19th century.
, His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days
created a unique form of American literature.
Both "Hawkeye" and "Leather-Stocking" were nicknames of Natty Bumppo,
the pioneer hero of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851),
known collectively as the Leather-Stocking Tales.
- Herman Melville - -American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the
American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic
account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-
Dick (1851). He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich
and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the
imagery is often mystical or ironic, and the abundance of allusion extends to
Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts.
- Dashiell Hammett - -Sam Spade is an old American type brought up to
date, Hawkeye become private eye with fedora and street smarts instead of
leather stockings and wood lore, his turf the last frontier of San Francisco.
- William Shakespeare - -English poet, playwright, and actor, widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-
eminent dramatist.[2] He is often called England's national poet, and the
"Bard of Avon." Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth,
- John Keats - -Romanticism. English Romantic poet. He was one of the main
figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron
and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - -American poet and educator whose works
include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was
also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was
one of the five Fireside Poets.
- Edgar Allan Poe - -"Annabel Lee" about a lost love.
- Alliteration - -the use of words that begin with the same sound near one
another (as in wild and woolly or a babbling brook )
- Personification - -the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman
things
- Iambic pentameter - -type of metrical line in traditional English poetry and
verse drama. The term describes the rhythm that the words establish in that
line, which is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet". The word
"iambic" refers to the type of foot that is used, known as the iamb, which in
English is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The word
practice exam |Questions And
Answers
Sonnet - -fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is
written in iambic pentameter.
- Ode - -a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often
elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
- Ballad - -Anonymous narrative poems; the ballad stanza is a four-line
stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines with a rhyme of abab or
abcb. a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads
are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one
generation to the next as part of the folk culture.
- Elegy - -a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
- Chorus - -or refrain, line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse
- persona - -the way you behave, talk, etc., with other people that causes
them to see you as a particular kind of person : the image or personality that
a person presents to other people
- genre - -a particular type or category of literature or art
- protagonist - -main character
- antagonist - -opposing character
- Ayn Rand - -Anthem deals mainly with the main character's struggle to
break free of his collectivist society and become an individual.
- Chinua Achebe - -Things Fall Apart
- William Golding - -Lord of the Flies
- Toni Morrison - -The Bluest Eye; Beloved
- Amy Tan - -The Joy Luck Club
- Alice Walker - -The Color Purple
,- Maxine Hong Kingston - -The Woman Warrior
- Zora Neale Hurston - -Their Eyes Were Watching God; Sweat (1926)
- Anticipation Guide - -a series of questions that students are asked to
respond to (usually by marking "Agree" or "Disagree") before a particular
unit or lesson is begun. After the unit or lesson, the students review their
answers to the anticipation guide and reflect on what they know or
understand better.
- Semantic feature analysis - -strategy that uses a grid to help kids explore
how sets of things are related to one another. By completing and analyzing
the grid, students are able to see connections, make predictions and master
important concepts. This strategy enhances comprehension and vocabulary
skills.
- Reciprocal teaching - -an instructional activity in which students become
the teacher in small group reading sessions. Teachers model, then help
students learn to guide group discussions using four strategies:
summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting.
- Background building - -the knowledge students have, learned both
formally in the classroom as well as informally through life experiences.
- Classic Haiku - -five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five
in the third. The second line in this poem is short one syllable.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - -an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short
story writer. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many
works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works
are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark
romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of
humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological
complexity. The House of the Seven Gables, Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet
Letter.
- Joseph Conrad - -wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting,
that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable
universe.
considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of
19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have
influenced many authors, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham
Greene, and Salman Rushdie
- James Fenimore Cooper - -The Last of the Mohicans. prolific and popular
American writer of the early 19th century.
, His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days
created a unique form of American literature.
Both "Hawkeye" and "Leather-Stocking" were nicknames of Natty Bumppo,
the pioneer hero of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851),
known collectively as the Leather-Stocking Tales.
- Herman Melville - -American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the
American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic
account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-
Dick (1851). He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich
and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the
imagery is often mystical or ironic, and the abundance of allusion extends to
Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts.
- Dashiell Hammett - -Sam Spade is an old American type brought up to
date, Hawkeye become private eye with fedora and street smarts instead of
leather stockings and wood lore, his turf the last frontier of San Francisco.
- William Shakespeare - -English poet, playwright, and actor, widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-
eminent dramatist.[2] He is often called England's national poet, and the
"Bard of Avon." Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth,
- John Keats - -Romanticism. English Romantic poet. He was one of the main
figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron
and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - -American poet and educator whose works
include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was
also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was
one of the five Fireside Poets.
- Edgar Allan Poe - -"Annabel Lee" about a lost love.
- Alliteration - -the use of words that begin with the same sound near one
another (as in wild and woolly or a babbling brook )
- Personification - -the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman
things
- Iambic pentameter - -type of metrical line in traditional English poetry and
verse drama. The term describes the rhythm that the words establish in that
line, which is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet". The word
"iambic" refers to the type of foot that is used, known as the iamb, which in
English is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The word
