OAE English Language Arts Exam
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Reading standards for informational text - ANS-connect text to background knowledge
make inferences
make interpretations
organize and differentiate between main ideas and details
locate evidence in a text
Paired reading strategy - ANS-both read silently
one student summarizes
the other agrees or disagrees and explains
agree on main idea
take turns identifying details
next section, reverse roles
Text coding - ANS-using "codes" on Post-its or in the margins for active reading
Two-column notes - ANS-one column for main ideas and second column for details
Text features in informational texts - ANS-title, appendix, captions, charts and tables,
diagrams, glossaries, graphs, index, maps, illustrations and photographs, table of
contents, timeline, footnotes, bullet points, sidebar, etc.
Aphorism - ANS-state common beliefs and may rhyme
Ex. Early to bed and early to rise/Make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"
Syllogism - ANS-deductive reasoning or a deceptive, very sophisticated, or subtle
argument
Deductive reasoning - ANS-general to specific
Inductive reasoning - ANS-specific to general
Diction - ANS-author word choice establishing tone and effects
Chiasmus - ANS-uses parallel clauses, the second revising the order of the first
Ex. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
Percy Bysshe Shelley - ANS-1792-1822
, inspired others to civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, vegetarianism, and animal
rights
Works: "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark," "Music," "When Soft
Voices Die," "The Cloud," "The Masque of Anarchy," Queen Mab"/"The Daemon of the
World," and "Adonais"
William Butler Yeats - ANS-1865-1939
among the greatest influences in 20th-century literature
Irish Nationalist involved in politics
earlier verses were lyrical, but later became realistic, symbolic, and apocalyptic
Romanticism to Modernism
Works: "The Stolen Child," "The Wanderings of Oisin," "The Death of Cuchulain," "Who
Goes with Fergus?," The Secret Rose, The Wind Among the Reeds, The Green Helmet,
Responsibilities, The Tower, The Winding Stair, and "The Second Coming"
Medieval/Renaissance Christian allegory - ANS-authors of allegory use all of the literal
plot elements of their writing as symbols to represent more abstract subjects
Rhetorical devices vs. figures of speech - ANS-when the main purpose of a figure of
speech becomes that of convincing or persuading the audience--the writer's readers of
the speaker's listeners--of the writing's point or argument, the the figure of speech can
be said to become a rhetorical device
Anaphora - ANS-rhetorical device
the repetition at regular intervals of the same word or phrase, used to create an effect
Discourse - ANS-how the author arranges and sequences events
Trochaic - ANS-line endings in a poem with masculine or strongly stressed syllables
Dactyl - ANS-line endings in a poem with feminine or unstressed syllables
Enjambment - ANS-one sentence or clause in a poem does not end at the end of its line
or verse, but runs over into the next line of verse
Caesura - ANS-pause in mid-verse
Aristotle's five critical terms relative to tragedy - ANS-anagnorisis, hamartia, hubris,
nemesis, and peripateia
Anagnorisis - ANS-tragic insight or recognition
Hamartia - ANS-tragic flaw or error
Hubris - ANS-arrogant overstepping of moral or cultural bounds
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Reading standards for informational text - ANS-connect text to background knowledge
make inferences
make interpretations
organize and differentiate between main ideas and details
locate evidence in a text
Paired reading strategy - ANS-both read silently
one student summarizes
the other agrees or disagrees and explains
agree on main idea
take turns identifying details
next section, reverse roles
Text coding - ANS-using "codes" on Post-its or in the margins for active reading
Two-column notes - ANS-one column for main ideas and second column for details
Text features in informational texts - ANS-title, appendix, captions, charts and tables,
diagrams, glossaries, graphs, index, maps, illustrations and photographs, table of
contents, timeline, footnotes, bullet points, sidebar, etc.
Aphorism - ANS-state common beliefs and may rhyme
Ex. Early to bed and early to rise/Make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"
Syllogism - ANS-deductive reasoning or a deceptive, very sophisticated, or subtle
argument
Deductive reasoning - ANS-general to specific
Inductive reasoning - ANS-specific to general
Diction - ANS-author word choice establishing tone and effects
Chiasmus - ANS-uses parallel clauses, the second revising the order of the first
Ex. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
Percy Bysshe Shelley - ANS-1792-1822
, inspired others to civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, vegetarianism, and animal
rights
Works: "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark," "Music," "When Soft
Voices Die," "The Cloud," "The Masque of Anarchy," Queen Mab"/"The Daemon of the
World," and "Adonais"
William Butler Yeats - ANS-1865-1939
among the greatest influences in 20th-century literature
Irish Nationalist involved in politics
earlier verses were lyrical, but later became realistic, symbolic, and apocalyptic
Romanticism to Modernism
Works: "The Stolen Child," "The Wanderings of Oisin," "The Death of Cuchulain," "Who
Goes with Fergus?," The Secret Rose, The Wind Among the Reeds, The Green Helmet,
Responsibilities, The Tower, The Winding Stair, and "The Second Coming"
Medieval/Renaissance Christian allegory - ANS-authors of allegory use all of the literal
plot elements of their writing as symbols to represent more abstract subjects
Rhetorical devices vs. figures of speech - ANS-when the main purpose of a figure of
speech becomes that of convincing or persuading the audience--the writer's readers of
the speaker's listeners--of the writing's point or argument, the the figure of speech can
be said to become a rhetorical device
Anaphora - ANS-rhetorical device
the repetition at regular intervals of the same word or phrase, used to create an effect
Discourse - ANS-how the author arranges and sequences events
Trochaic - ANS-line endings in a poem with masculine or strongly stressed syllables
Dactyl - ANS-line endings in a poem with feminine or unstressed syllables
Enjambment - ANS-one sentence or clause in a poem does not end at the end of its line
or verse, but runs over into the next line of verse
Caesura - ANS-pause in mid-verse
Aristotle's five critical terms relative to tragedy - ANS-anagnorisis, hamartia, hubris,
nemesis, and peripateia
Anagnorisis - ANS-tragic insight or recognition
Hamartia - ANS-tragic flaw or error
Hubris - ANS-arrogant overstepping of moral or cultural bounds
