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Practice Test 2 (Subtest 1) Flashcards

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Which of the following verse forms originated in Italy, was adapted into English literature during the 1500s, and includes 14 lines? (limerick, sonnet, ballad, dramatic monlogue)

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Sonnet (written in Sicily during the 1200s, poet Petrarch popularized it, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard adapted it into English, Shakespeare perfected it).

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Walt Whitman brought a new style to 19th century American poetry based on what? Long line and repetitive cadences of _________ ________.

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long line and repetitive cadences of biblical verses

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What are poets from the Neoclassical period known for doing? (examples: Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, The Dunciad by Alexander Pope)

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  • heroic couplets
  • satirical humor
  • mocking hypocrisies of society
  • intellectual
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What was Ralph Waldo Emerson known of being the leader of? (hint: a movement) And what was a consistent theme in his poems?

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  • Transcendentalist movement
  • He expounded the idea of the interconnectedness of all things, the Great Chain of Being
  • Similar to Darwin in his Origin of Species (1859)
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This story tells the story of a man of science who brings to life something who eventually takes revenge on him. It is a morality tale about the limits of science

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Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein

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What type of rhyme does Yeats use in his poem “Lines Written in Dejection”?

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Slant rhymes- which match end sounds that are similar but not exactly the same (i.e. on/moon, bodies/ladies)

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What are imagist poems? And who is a poet that used this style of writing?

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-Generally written in free verse
-Precisely described images
-William Carlos Williams
“So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain…”

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This story of John Milton’s focuses on the theme of mankind’s fall from grace and God’s banishment of Satan from heaven. It was written to justify the ways of God to man.

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Paradise Lost

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What is an oxymoron?

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-a phrase made up of words that seem contradictory when placed together but may actually express a special meaning
-seen in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
“sick health” “still-waking sleep”

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What is a ballad? What did they typically include?

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  • A songlike poem that tells a story and often has a refrain (repeated line/lines)
  • included accounts of murders, revenge, violence
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What literary movement presents a fragmented view of reality and includes parody, pastiche (imitation), unreliable narrators, etc?

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PostModernism

-Nabokov

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What is this an example of used by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce to show the thoughts of a character? “Such fools we all are, she thought, crossing Victoria street. For Heaven only knows why one love it so, how one sees it, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it…”

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Stream of consciousness

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What is “local color” and what writers were a part of this group?

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  • Regional literature that focused on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features unique to a particular region in the US.
  • Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Sarah Orne Jewett
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Prospero’s speech in The Tempest is implying what to his audience?

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-The artificial nature of the play and its performance

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Ralph Ellison (an AA writer) wrote Invisible Man. What is the dominant mood of some of the passages?

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alienation leading to anger

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What is metonymy?

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  • A figure of speech
  • Calling one thing by another related thing

Antony–> Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
-cancerstick= cigarette

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These types of poets used outrageous metaphors, extended comparisons, and subtle wit to explore the fundamental nature of reality and humanity’s place in it?

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  • metaphysical poets

- John Donne, George Herbert

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What is the Jacobean revenge play? What is an example of this type of drama?

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  • dark exploration of human psychology
  • crowd pleasing penchant for violence and sex
  • Ex: The Changeling
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What is this an example of?
Ex: THE GUEST HAVING DEPARTED IN TWOS AND THREES, we decided the party was at an end.

(subordinate clause, an appositive, a verbal phrase, an absolute phrase)

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  • absolute phrase
  • phrase made up of a noun followed by a participle or a participial phrase
  • it is called absolute because it does not modify any single word in the sentence
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What word contains an overt inflectional ending? television, fastens, assertive, knapsack

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  • fastens

- because there is an ending that is added to the word that does not change its meaning

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A hybrid language such as Spanglish is one usual result of which kind of linguistic behavior?

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BORROWING

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A recurring feature of literature for young adult is….

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-A focus on the thoughts and reactions of an individual character in a situation that takes place over a relatively short period.

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Literary works such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, and George Orwell’s 1984 are examples of what type of novel?

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  • Dystopian novels
  • the books listed here imagine horrible totalitarian states where life is regimented and ordinary citizens have little or no freedom.
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The allegorical play Everyman is probably the best-known example of what kind of drama?

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  • Medieval morality play
  • Mystery plays and morality plays of the Middle Ages taught Christian stories and values mainly through the use of allegory and symbolism.
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What is the literary approach of neoclassical writers? (i.e. Alexander Pope’s ESSAY ON MAN, Samuel Johnson, John Dryden)

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-the condition of mankind in witty, aphoristic verse.
-wrote in rhymed heroic couplets
Ex: aphorism: The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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What is a Petrarchan sonnet?

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  • sonnets contain 14 lines
  • last 6 lines variously rhymed
  • shakespeare sonnet is different, because last 2 lines are rhymed
27
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Does quantitative measures or qualitative measures involve measuring readability and scoring complexity?

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  • quantitative

- think #’s

28
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What are qualitative measures of text complexity?

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-involves levels of meaning, structure, demands on background knowledge.

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Which Shakespearean character would probably be of most interest in a postcolonial analysis of The Tempest?

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  • Caliban (son of the witch in the tempest)
  • might focus on the character of Caliban and how he represents a culture that has been colonized and oppressed by western Europeans as represented by Prospero.
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What is Lévi-Strauss’s idea about the meaning and structure of language?

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  • believes that genre conventions such as myths are like codes or signs in that they convey meaning independently of the actual words in a written text
  • believes that this is common to the literatures of almost all societies and cultures.
31
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What is a parody?

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a work written in imitation of an author’s style or of a genre in order to make fun of it and mock its conventions (i.e. Don Quixote)

32
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Deus ex machina, which is a method of solving the characters’ problems in a play through divine intervention, was originally a feature of what category of drama?

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-ancient Greek drama

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What should you do with an explanatory phrase that goes along with a quotation?

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  • In direct quotations, an inserted explanatory phrase should always be enclosed in brackets to signal the reader that it is not a part of the quoted material.
  • Ex:“In the interview, Nabokov lamented the poshlost [smug philistinism] that he saw everywhere in American popular fiction.”
34
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Only a student who is able to read on the level of applied comprehension can do what when reading a story?

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-move beyond the story to think critically and creatively about its implications

35
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What is the branch of linguistics that deals with the internal structure and form of words?

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-MORPHOLOGY

36
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What is a semantic feature analysis and how can it be used for a reading activity?

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  • it is a reading activity
  • used to look at how vocab words relate to one another
  • used to expand content knowledge.
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What is an adverb clause?

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  • phrases that begin with subordinating conjunctions and modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
  • Ex: “Police officers monitored the crowd when the concert ended,” the word when serves as a subordinating conjunction and the entire phrase “when the concert ended” is an adverb clause modifying the verb monitored.
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When was the neoclassical period for writing? The writers of this time were trying to imitate the writing of who/what?

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  • 1660-1798

- Romans and Greeks

39
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What are bildungsromans? hint: type of novels

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  • Written by Charles Dickens
  • describe the development of a young person from childhood to maturity
  • David Copperfield, Great Expectations
  • in Victorian period (gap btwn Romanticism to Modernism)
40
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What is the name of the branch of linguistics that is concerned with the meaning of words?

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Semantics

41
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What is the name for the composition of sentences?

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Syntax

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Which branch of linguistics allows an English speaker to know that plural endings depend on the last sound of the word stem, as in spatula/spatulas and patch/patches?

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  • MORPHOLOGY
  • is the branch of linguistics that deals with the internal structure and forms of words. It is concerned with the rules for the use of morphemes, or the smallest units of meaning, in a language
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An office worker, told that his use of the pronoun who is often incorrect, says to a caller on the phone, “Whom should I say is on the line?” This type of linguistic behavior is an example of which of the following?

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Hyper Correction

-being corrected for a mistake and then making furthe mistakes in trying to avoid original error

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What are the key principles in Stephen Krashen’s “Acquisition-Learning hypothesis”?

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  • 2 systems for learning a language
  • 1- acquired system
  • 2- learned system
  • acquisition is more important than learning system
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What are the key principles in Stephen Krashen’s “Acquisition-Learning hypothesis”?

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  • 2 systems for learning a language
  • 1- acquired system (subconscious)
  • 2- learned system (formal instruction)
  • acquisition is more important than learning system
46
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Old English is closely identified with which of the following?

A. Anglo-Norman

B. The Great Vowel Shift

C. Anglo-Saxon

D. The English Renaissance

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  • Anglo Saxon (aka)

- dev from Germanic dialects spoken by tribes migrating from Northern Europe around 500 ce

47
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What is the reading strategy being used if a student faced with a difficult passage might read ahead or review previous sections to see how unfamiliar parts fit into the whole?

A

Cohesion analysis

48
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Research indicates that variables such as motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety play an important role in language acquisition. Which linguistic theory accounts for this phenomenon?

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The Affective Filter hypothesis

49
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A teacher writes the word courage in a large circle on the blackboard and solicits responses from the class through brainstorming or free association. This exercise is an example of what?

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Semantic mapping

50
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What is a verb complement?

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The arrangement of one verb as the object of another verb.

Ex: I told him to begin.

51
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What are some common themes in Shakespeare’s sonnets? Other poems?

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  • emptiness of old age

- dissatisfactions of old agr

52
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What are some ways I can analyze poem s?

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  • comment on speaker
  • analyze tone
  • what lines are creating analogies? How can I use lines to show analogies and use as evidence
  • compare and contrast
  • what is the love of each poem
53
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What are some good ways for me to analyze an op-Ed article or something similar?

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  • begin with titles
  • acknowledge who I think the audience is (I.e. Fairly well educated and informed about current issues)
  • explain what author argues and how they explain this
  • is author effective with language or not?
  • what is tone and is it useful? (Too irreverent)
  • conclude with what questions I’m left with and feel like the author did not address,
54
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Out of the words photography, tension, global, and knife, which has a predictable pronunciation based on sound-symbol correspondence?

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GLOBAL: because the reliable sounds of its letters. Digraph ph, si, kn are less predictable.

55
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What is another name for a simplified contact language made up of two or more languages?

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  • Pidgin

- creole is diff’t because it is the result of when pidgin develops over time and incorporates more complex principled

56
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Which area of linguistic study is concerned with a speaker’s INTENDED meaning rather than his or her literal meaning?

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Pragmatics

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What was the most significant effect the Great Vowel Shift(15th century) had on the English language?

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  • pronunciation of the long vowels in English slowly changed.
  • long e was originally pronounced like the e in there or the a in fate
  • after, long e was pronounced like the e in sweep, as it is today
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What is the argument of why older learners of a second language may retain an accent?

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  • not being able to distinguish and correctly reproduce certain phonemes
  • second-language learners have difficulty in recognizing certain phonemes because there is a limited developmental period during which infants and children can discriminate between all phonemes in speech.
59
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How does the following sentence use a prepositional phrase to modify a noun?

The old gentleman in a top hat and tuxedo stood up when the orchestra launched into The Star-Spangled Banner.

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The prepositional phrase “in a top hat and tuxedo” modifies the noun gentleman.

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How is the following sentence an example of a verb complement in that one verb is the object of another verb?

Akira considered joining a health club.

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(D) The phrase “joining a health club” is a verb complement serving as the object of the verb considered

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How does the following sentence use a prepositional phrase to modify a verb?

My sister designed a space station set during her vacation.

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  • DURING HER VACATION (p.p)
  • prep phrase consists of a prepositions, its object, and any modifiers
  • during = prep
  • vacation = object
  • phrase serves as a modifier to the word designed

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