PRAXIS II MIDDLE SCHOOL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%

PRAXIS II MIDDLE SCHOOL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% Style Usage of language to achieve certain effects Tone Conveying an attitude or a mood with characters, settings, diction Voice Who the narrator is and the attitude of the speaker, not necessarily the writer mood Feeling at a specific point within the story Harlem Renaissance (literature) African American movement in the '20s, French speakers. James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Black artistic movement in New York City in the 1920s, when writers, poets, painters, and musicians came together to express feelings and experiences, especially about the injustices of Jim Crow; leading figures of the movement included Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes. Old English (literature) Poem Beowulf. Anglo Saxon Chronicles. Mostly consists of saints' lives biblical translations, Middle English (literature) Chaucer's Canterbury Tales., Transitional period between Anglo-Saxon and modern English. . Chaucer is a good example of this period's work. British Renaissance (literature) Years: Themes: world view shifts from religion and after life to one stressing the human life on earth popular theme: development of human potential popular theme: many aspects of love explored unrequited love, constant love, timeless love, courtly love, love subject to change Key Literature/Authors: William Shakespeare, Donne, American Colonial (literature) Anne Bradstreet- home and family life, John Winthrop- religious foundations of Massachussetts Bay, Phillis Wheatley- Slave narrative and poetry. British Neoclassical (literature) Reason, Logic, Paradise Lost by MItlon, Dunn, Modernism (literature) practices typical of contemporary life or thought. Yeats, TS Eliot, Joyce, Rejecting tradition American Naturalistic Sinclair, Steinbeck, Twain. THe world as it is, specifically the grime and the grit. Postmodernism The belief that society is no longer governed by history or progress. Postmodern society is highly pluralistic and diverse, with no "grand narrative" guiding its development. Dylan Thomas, Orwell, Golding. Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds