Praxis: English 5309 Flashcards
Prep for the Praxis 5309 exam (43 cards)
A persuasive technique that encourages people to join in the group and work together.
Bandwagon
A persuasive technique that emphasizes one side of an argument and repress another.
Card stacking
A persuasive technique that uses a celebrity making a claim.
Testimonial
A persuasive technique that uses emotionally appealing words.
Glittering generalities
A simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common.
A pidgin
A variation of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language’s speakers.
A dialect
A stable natural language developed (with grammatical rules) from the mixing of parent languages.
A creole
A word or phrase used by a population in a particular region.
A regionalism
The practice of learning about a writing form by dissecting it and investigating its parts. It involves analyzing, questioning, and forming conclusions from examples of the writing mode.
Discipline-based inquiry
An instructional method that includes building background knowledge, discussing and modeling a strategy, memorizing the strategy, and supporting the practice of the strategy until students can use it independently.
Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD)
An activity that can be used to document what students know, what they want to know, and what they learned.
A K-W-L chart
An activity in which a dialogue takes place between the students and the teacher, and participants take turns assuming the role of the teacher.
Reciprocal teaching
The formal study, analysis, and evaluation of literary texts, sprung from the power of language to elicit interpretive responses in readers.
literary criticism
Period of American literature that contains texts from the early colonists, who wrote about exploration, Native American relations, and life in the New World (1620-1750).
Colonial Period
Period of American literature that contains texts centered on the colonies’ quest for independence (1750-1815).
Age of Revolution
Period of American literature in which writers placed an emphasis on the power of imagination, the celebration of individualism, and a love of nature in an effort to break away from British literary tradition (1800-1865).
Romantic/Transcendental Period
Period of American literature in which writers sought to portray American life as it truly was and emphasized verisimilitude (1855-1910). This period included Civil War writers, Regionalists, and Naturalists.
The Realistic Period
Period of American literature in which writers wrote about the World Wars, alienation, the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, and the changing world (1900-1955). Writers of the Harlem Renaissance were also considered part of this period.
The Modern(ist) Period
Period of American literature in which writers have challenged traditional values and structures and shown heightened concern for social issues (1950-present).
The Postmodern Period
Some of the prevailing themes of American literature:
individualism, the American dream/reality, cultural diversity, tolerance, the search for identity
William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Olaudah Equiano, and Jonathan Edwards all belong to this American literary period.
Colonial Period (1620-1750)
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin all belong to this American literary period.
The Age of Revolution (1750-1815)
Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Sojourner Truth, Washington Irving, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville all belong to this American literary period.
The Romantic Period (1800-1865)
Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau all belong to this American literary period.
Transcendentalism (1830-1865)
