Praxis 2 Middle School Content Knowledge

Question 1

Style

Answer 1

Use of language to convey certain effects

Question 2

Tone

Answer 2

Conveying an attitude or a mood with characters, setting, diction

Question 3

Voice

Answer 3

Who the narrator is and the attitude of the speaker, not necessarily the writer

Question 4

Mood

Answer 4

Feeling at a specific point within the story

Question 5

Harlem Renaissance (literature)

Answer 5

African American movement in the ’20s, French speakers. James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, a 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.

Question 6

Old English (lit)

Answer 6

Mostly consists of saints’ lives through biblical translations

Question 7

Middle English (lit)

Answer 7

Transitional period between anglo-saxon and modern english

Question 8

Brittish Renaissance (lit)

Answer 8

world view shifts from religion and after life to one stressing the human life on earth
popular theme: development of human potential. Shakespeare

Question 9

American Colonial (lit)

Answer 9

Anne Bradstreet- home and family life, John Winthrop- religious foundations of Massachussetts Bay, Phillis Wheatley- Slave narrative and poetry.

Question 10

Alliteration

Answer 10

The repition of sound parts of speech

Question 11

Allusion

Answer 11

Makes reference to or representation of people, places, events

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

Descrives a subject by asserting that it is, on some level, the same as another

Question 13

simile

Answer 13

like as comparison

Question 14

Allegory

Answer 14

can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

Question 15

John Locke

Answer 15

English philosopher who advocated the idea of a “social contract” in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.

Question 16

Hobbes

Answer 16

Believed human action is motivated by selfish concerns and the fear of death. Known for writing Leviathan during the Civil War (1651)- argues for a social contract by an absolute soveriegn

Question 17

Marx

Answer 17

developed “scientific socialism”, said that productive forces and economic relationships together made up the foundation of society. therefore, classes would conflict until the ‘golden age’ of communism took over. Author of Communist Manifesto

Question 18

Lenin

Answer 18

founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world’s first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924.