OAE - Middle Grades ELA (028) Exam
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Improving Comprehension 1. activating prior knowledge 2. asking
Strategies questions 3.
visualizing 4. monitoring while reading 5.
drawing
inferences 6. summarizing/ retelling
Illusion deceptive appearance or false idea
Expository text informs, explains, or tells "how to," no
opinion; only
facts, has logical order
Style a writer's voice
ballad 4 lined stanza, but tetremeter & trimeter
lines
Victorian Period 1832-1870 Ex: The Raven, Jane Eyre, David
Copperfield, Great
Expectations
British Romantics 1780-1830s Ex: Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron
, Romantic Period 1798-1832 Ex: Frankenstein, lyrical ballads, She
Walks in
Beauty, Ivanhoe
Naturalistic Period 1900-1930 Ex: Sister Carrie, influenced by Charles
Darwin
Quatrain Stanza with 4 lines & rhyme scheme of
AABB,
ABAB, ABCB
English Periods Old English (428-1100)- Beowulf, Norman
Conquest, Magna Carta
Middle English (1350-1500)- Chaucer
Syllable a word part that contains a vowel, or, in
spoken
language, a vowel sound
onset & rime onset- initial consonant
rime- part that contains the vowel and all
that
follows
ex: STOP onset- ST rime- OP
Mood atmosphere created by a piece
Ex: MacBeth- dark, gloomy
Cognates words that share a common linguistic
history
Questions and Answers with Verified
Solutions | Latest Updated 2026
Improving Comprehension 1. activating prior knowledge 2. asking
Strategies questions 3.
visualizing 4. monitoring while reading 5.
drawing
inferences 6. summarizing/ retelling
Illusion deceptive appearance or false idea
Expository text informs, explains, or tells "how to," no
opinion; only
facts, has logical order
Style a writer's voice
ballad 4 lined stanza, but tetremeter & trimeter
lines
Victorian Period 1832-1870 Ex: The Raven, Jane Eyre, David
Copperfield, Great
Expectations
British Romantics 1780-1830s Ex: Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron
, Romantic Period 1798-1832 Ex: Frankenstein, lyrical ballads, She
Walks in
Beauty, Ivanhoe
Naturalistic Period 1900-1930 Ex: Sister Carrie, influenced by Charles
Darwin
Quatrain Stanza with 4 lines & rhyme scheme of
AABB,
ABAB, ABCB
English Periods Old English (428-1100)- Beowulf, Norman
Conquest, Magna Carta
Middle English (1350-1500)- Chaucer
Syllable a word part that contains a vowel, or, in
spoken
language, a vowel sound
onset & rime onset- initial consonant
rime- part that contains the vowel and all
that
follows
ex: STOP onset- ST rime- OP
Mood atmosphere created by a piece
Ex: MacBeth- dark, gloomy
Cognates words that share a common linguistic
history
