PRAXIS 5038 (2023/2024) Already Graded A

PRAXIS 5038 (2023/2024) Already Graded A The Colonial Period ; e.g. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", Of Plymouth Plantation, Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano The Age of Revolution ; authors: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin The Romantic Period ; authors: William Cullen Bryant, James Fennimore Cooper, Sojourner Truth, Washington Irving Transcendental writers Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance), Henry David Thoreau (Walden) Anti-transcendental writers Nathaniel Hawthorn (The Scarlet Letter), Herman Melville (Moby Dick) New England/Transitional writers Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman The Realistic Period ; William Dean Howells Civil War writers Mary Chestnut (Diary of Mary Chestnut), Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address), Frederick Douglass Regionalist writers Willa Cather (My Antonia), William Faulkner (Absalom! Absalom!) Naturalist writers Jack London (Call of the Wild), Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) The Modern Period ; authors: Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Frost, Nikki Giovanni, E.E. Cummings, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Alice Walker, Sinclair Lewis, Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, Malcolm X, MLK Jr. Lost Generation writers Ernest Hemingway Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neal Hurston The Postmodern Period 1950-present; Art Spiegleman (Maus), Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Don DiLillo (White Noise) The Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066; Beowulf The Medieval Period ; Chaucer (Canterbury Tales), Sir Thomas Mallory (Le Morte D'Arthur) The Renaissance Period ; Christopher Marlow, Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queene), William Shakespeare Elizabethan Age writers John Donne, Ben Johnson, John Milton (Paradise Lost) The Restoration Period ; Samuel Pepys, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Jonathan Swift The Age of Sensibility gothic novels; Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey), Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights) The Enlightenment Francis Bacon, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau Metaphysical Poets John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert The Romantic Period ; Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley The Victorian Period ; Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy The Modern Era ; Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas constructivism the belief that readers use their prior knowledge to construct meanings; thus teachers must provide students with the background information necessary for them to understand the text conceit a figure of speech that creates a parallel between two dissimilar things spiraling when a teacher regularly revisits or reviews a topic reader-response theory as people read they experience a transaction with the text; feelings and emotions influence a reader's interpretation of the text feminist theory involves asking questions about the degree to which a literary text perpetuates the ideas that women are inferior to and dependent on men or that the perspective of a woman is not as interesting or significant as that of a man deconstructionist focuses on dissecting and uncovering the writer's assumptions about what is true and false, good and bad; language = a distortion of reality semiotic analysis study of signs, signals, visual messages, and gestures which are analyzed for what ideas they represent marxist theory focuses on the economic systems that structure society and the ways human behavior is motivated by a desire for economic power (include in unit plan for Genre and Text Selection!!!) formalism/new criticism emphasizes close reading of the text; analysis of how literary elements create meaning; unconcerned with the text's effect on the reader logical fallacy error or breakdown in logical reasoning; writing needs a valid initial premise examples: slippery slope, hasty generalization, circular argument, red herring logos logical appeals pathos emotional appeals ethos ethical appeals testimonial statement about the quality or value of a person, idea, or thing verbal irony character says the opposite of what they mean situational irony event contradicts audience's expectation dramatic irony audience knows something characters are not aware of internal rhyme rhyming 2 or more words in the same line of poetry blank verse poetry written in unrhyming iambic pentameter; e.g. Shakespeare, Paradise Lost soliloquy a monologue delivered when seemingly no other character is listening