OAE Lit

Question 1

Dictation vs. Dialect

Answer 1

Dialect: accents according to culture/social status etc
Ex: there’s gold up in thar hills

Dictation: the way a person organizes their language
Ex: I’m heading uptown for the evening vs I’m going out for a night on the town

Question 2

Improving Comprehension Strategies (6)

Answer 2

1. activating prior knowledge
2. asking questions
3. visualizing
4. monitoring while reading
5. drawing inferences
6. summarizing/ retelling

Question 3

Illusion

Answer 3

deceptive appearance or false idea

Question 4

Expository text

Answer 4

informs, explains, or tells “how to,” no opinion; only facts, has logical order

Question 5

Style

Answer 5

a writer’s voice

Question 6

ballad

Answer 6

4 lined stanza, but tetremeter & trimeter lines

Question 7

Victorian Period 1832-1870

Answer 7

Ex: The Raven, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Great Expectations

Question 8

British Romantics 1780-1830s

Answer 8

Ex: Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron

Question 9

Romantic Period 1798-1832

Answer 9

Ex: Frankenstein, lyrical ballads, She Walks in Beauty, Ivanhoe

Question 10

Naturalistic Period 1900-1930

Answer 10

Ex: Sister Carrie, influenced by Charles Darwin

Question 11

Quatrain

Answer 11

Stanza with 4 lines & rhyme scheme of AABB, ABAB, ABCB

Question 12

English Periods

Answer 12

Old English (428-1100)- Beowulf, Norman Conquest, Magna Carta

Middle English (1350-1500)- Chaucer

Question 13

Syllable

Answer 13

a word part that contains a vowel, or, in spoken language, a vowel sound

Question 14

Onset and rime

Answer 14

onset- initial consonant

rime- part that contains the vowel and all that follows

ex: STOP onset- ST rime- OP

Question 15

Mood

Answer 15

atmosphere created by a piece

Ex: MacBeth- dark, gloomy

Question 16

Cognates

Answer 16

words that share a common linguistic history

Question 17

affixes

Answer 17

morphemes attached to a word stem to form a new word

Question 18

participle

Answer 18

2 forms of a verb that are used to express the progressive aspect & perfect aspect

present- add -ing
past- add -ed
adjectival- descriptive

Question 19

types of phrases (3)

Answer 19

participial- walking by the bakery, _________

prepositional- combined with noun or noun phrase– “to the zoo” “at mom’s house”

appositive- word function where a noun replaces/ renames a noun

Question 20

free verse

Answer 20

poetry based on irregular rhythmic cadence; rhyme is not necessary

Question 21

post modern period

Answer 21

Maya Angelou, The Color Purple, Beloved, Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)

Question 22

British Neo-Classical 1660-1798

Answer 22

on Swift- Gulliver’s Travels, The Great Awakening, Dan DeFoe- Robinson Crusoe