English CSET Pt.2 Flashcards
Literature Structure 1
Plot, theme, narrative, point of view,
Lit Structure 2
Archetypes,setting,development.
Lit Structure 3
Expressed purpouse and different forms of literature .
Lit Structure 4
Denotative vs Connotative Meeting. Analyze impact of word choices in meaning.
Lit Structure 5
Analyze choice of words, use of flashbacks, cultural experience, past experience , ext.
Absurdity fiction
Presents humanities plight as meaningless. People should seek thrill for no real purpouse. Response to wars and Great Depression in 20th century.
Allegory
Story serves as long metaphor, plot and presentation has a secondary meaning that
Ballad
Song like story that has a refrain or repeated line.
Comic Novel
Focus on a person with repeated events
Dystopian
Ordinary people live regimented lives .
Epic
Narrative poem with a heroic characters who takes a journey.
Fantansy
Blends historical realism with elements of fiction-i.e English knights and wizards.
Novel
Long prose of fiction that tends to address the concerns of society in which it was produced. -combines elements of fantasy, history, and philosophy.
Poem
Literary work of rhythmic lines divided into stanzas-
Elegy
A poem in a solom or more melancholy tone that morns the death of a person.
Haiku
Structured 5-7-5 -comparison of two things and includes words relating to season or nature.
Limerick
Five line poem-short story development-moral lesson.
Ode
A meditative poem for the purpouse of praise. Varying lengths.
Pastoral
Visual descriptive poem glorifying rural life.
Sonnet
Italian poem latter popularized by Shakespeare- Patarachian consists of two quatrains in the ABAB format.
Triolet
8 line poem based on French models , 1,47 line indentical,
Villalnelle
19 lines divided into a five line stanza , with two rythem sounds.
Science Fiction
Scientific and technological breakthrough and affects on society, both good and bad,
Short Story
Limited setting, often confined to a single incident.
Utopian
Fantasy of perfect world.
Literary Devices 1-3
Alliteration-Repeating constant sound in sentence, paragraph or line of poetry.
Allusion-reference to a famous person , place , or event.
Anachronism:elements not appropriate for the time period-making a call in the 1800s.
Analogy: two unalike things described in a way that makes them seem similar.
Literary Devices 4-7
Antagonist: villan in a story.
Anthesis-figue of speech that balances idea with opposites: “world will end in fire or ice” .
Irony
verbal, situational, and dramatic.
Malapropism
word mistaken for another word when pronounced.
Meter
Meter is measuring rhythm in a formal verse into feet.
Plot
Sequence of events in a narrative.
Plot Points
Introduction-Expostion:Characters or setting are introduced.
Rising Action: Main problem or conflict arises.
Climax: drastic turn of events creates
Falling Action: unwinding of the problem or conflict.
Resolution: problem or conflict is worked out in the end.
Prologue
Introduction in the section of a literary work.
Refrain
Line repeated regularly in a poem.
Soliloquy
Character talks to them self and audience is left to judge the state of mind . Delivers plot points.
Theater of the Absurd
Plays a dislocated, senseless, and illogical speech-shows confusion and feeling of purposelessness in the modern world.
Setting Purpose for Reading
1.Solve a problem 2.Find the information 3.Find similar sources to cross reference 4. Find a resolution.
Analyzing Vocab
Code vocab -highlight unfamiliar vocab code by analyzing the root parts-words prefix, suffix, ext. Also look at context of sentence to guess unfamiliar words.
Self Monitoring Habits
Metacogntiive strategies-how to know when you have understood the text.
Strucuturalist
Use of sociology and anthropology-every literature has underlying patterns and symmetries related to certain cultures.
New Criticism
Focus on Diction, Cemetery, and Underlying meaning.
Historical
Focus on allusions , references,fit to conventions of the period.
New Historicism
Study cultural and intellectual history through subtext.
Biograpghical
Traditional criticism-detials of writers life, period, and how the it was produced.
Colonialism
Examine literature in context of history in colonialism, literature, and racial inequity.
Reader Response
Reader responds with their own personal experiences, baieses, ext.
Craft Structure of Informational Text-Determine Meaning of Words or Phrases.
Determine figurative, connotative, or technical meaning.
Craft Structure Info Text-Structure
How exposition is structured to argue points.
Craft Structure of Text
Determine words or phrases used in informational text-figurative language, connotations, and technical meanings.
Effectiveness of structure used in an exposition-points organized, made clear, made convincing.
Text features-grapghics , headers , and captions.
Analyze how effective rhetoric and content contribute to the persuasiveness of the work.
Text Structure
How the text is organized. Cause and effect, problem and solution, hypothesis and support, ext.
Language Use
Language Use, figurative language, connotative and denotative-also use of humor, tone , irony, ext.
Methods of Persuasion
Style of convention-pathos, logos, ethos, Use of text features like graphs, ext.
Text Complexity
Qualitative: structure, conventionality, and meaning of language.
Qualitative: Measure indicators of complexity and score by tallying.
Acquisition and Development of a Language
Influence of language acquisition-including of first lang on second language.
Types of English
Old English-500 a.d from migration of Anles, Saxons, Jutes.
Middle English-William the Conqueror- French influences on
system of cases, genders, numbers, pronouns,
Structuralist
Grammar-universal linguistic structure.
Setting the Purpose of Reading.
Verify prediction, solve problem, find information, compare elements.
Code Vocab
See unfamiliar words-decode by analyzing word part and orgins-root, prefix, suffix.
Look for context cues.
Lit Crit 1: Structuralist
All literature has underlying patterns related to sociology and anthropology.
Formalist
Literary element of a text contributes to a coherent whole. Style, word choice, and conventions analyzed.
New Criticism
Diction imagery and underlying meaning.
Verbal-not connected to broader context.
Historical
Allusions, style, point of view-related to time period.
Post Colonial
Literary works examine contribution of ideas to colonialism, imperialism, and racial inequality.
Deconstructionist Approach
Linked to post modernism-meaning not limited to what the author includes-linked to post modernism.
Informational Text: Craft Structure
Note how phrases are used in informational texts-figurative, connotative, and technical meaning.
How author uses structure to present or argue the point.
Analyze use of text features-establish purpouse and structure.
Pov and how style and content advance pov.
Integration
Creation of multi-media presentation-helps students address issue and solve a problem.
Common form of Text Structure.
Cause and effect, problem /solution-hypothesis /support-compare - contrast/ sequential steps/ classification.
Language Use.
Figurative language, connotative language, and technical terms.
Methods of Persuasion
Ethos-Pathos-Logos-Logic/ Reason/ Emotion-
Old English
500 A.D Migration of Anglo Saxon and Jutes.
Middle English
William the Conqueror introduces French words and structure to English.
Post Norman: More elaborate structure of cases, genders, and numbers disappeared from articles and adjectives. Modals-shall and will.
Modern English
The Great Vowel Shift-Change in phonology and patterns that brought what we use today.
Long vowels pronounced with tongue higher than mouth.
Renaissance-Greek and Latin Root Words.
Structuralist Grammar
Defined relationship between words through sound and meaning.
Generative Grammar
People share an innate and universal set of linguistic structures-transfer of skills across paths.
Phonology
Unite of Speech to combine to make a word.
Morphology
Internal structure and form of words.
Morphones and small units of meaning- plural ending/ last sound of words stem.
