Praxis 2 Middle School Content Knowledge Flashcards
Style
Use of language to convey certain effects
Tone
Conveying an attitude or a mood with characters, setting, diction
Voice
Who the narrator is and the attitude of the speaker, not necessarily the writer
Mood
Feeling at a specific point within the story
Harlem Renaissance (literature)
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.
Old English (lit)
Mostly consists of saints’ lives through biblical translations
Middle English (lit)
Transitional period between anglo-saxon and modern english
Brittish Renaissance (lit)
world view shifts from religion and after life to one stressing the human life on earth
popular theme: development of human potential. Shakespeare
American Colonial (lit)
Anne Bradstreet- home and family life, John Winthrop- religious foundations of Massachussetts Bay, Phillis Wheatley- Slave narrative and poetry.
Alliteration
The repition of sound parts of speech
Allusion
Makes reference to or representation of people, places, events
Metaphor
Descrives a subject by asserting that it is, on some level, the same as another
simile
like as comparison
Allegory
can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
John Locke
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.
Hobbes
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
Marx
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
Lenin
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.
