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Praxis: English 5309 Flashcards

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A persuasive technique that encourages people to join in the group and work together.

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Bandwagon

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A persuasive technique that emphasizes one side of an argument and repress another.

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Card stacking

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A persuasive technique that uses a celebrity making a claim.

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Testimonial

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A persuasive technique that uses emotionally appealing words.

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Glittering generalities

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A simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common.

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A pidgin

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A variation of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language’s speakers.

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A dialect

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A stable natural language developed (with grammatical rules) from the mixing of parent languages.

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A creole

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A word or phrase used by a population in a particular region.

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A regionalism

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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.

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Discipline-based inquiry

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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.

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Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD)

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An activity that can be used to document what students know, what they want to know, and what they learned.

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A K-W-L chart

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An activity in which a dialogue takes place between the students and the teacher, and participants take turns assuming the role of the teacher.

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Reciprocal teaching

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The formal study, analysis, and evaluation of literary texts, sprung from the power of language to elicit interpretive responses in readers.

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literary criticism

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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).

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Colonial Period

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Period of American literature that contains texts centered on the colonies’ quest for independence (1750-1815).

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Age of Revolution

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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).

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Romantic/Transcendental Period

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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.

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The Realistic Period

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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.

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The Modern(ist) Period

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Period of American literature in which writers have challenged traditional values and structures and shown heightened concern for social issues (1950-present).

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The Postmodern Period

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Some of the prevailing themes of American literature:

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individualism, the American dream/reality, cultural diversity, tolerance, the search for identity

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William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Olaudah Equiano, and Jonathan Edwards all belong to this American literary period.

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Colonial Period (1620-1750)

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Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin all belong to this American literary period.

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The Age of Revolution (1750-1815)

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Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Sojourner Truth, Washington Irving, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville all belong to this American literary period.

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The Romantic Period (1800-1865)

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Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau all belong to this American literary period.

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Transcendentalism (1830-1865)

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William Dean Howells and Mark Twain belong to this American literary period.

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Realism (1855-1900)

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Mary Chesnut, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass all belong to this American literary period.

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The Civil War Period (1855-1870)

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Willa Cather and William Faulkner belong to this American literary period.

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Regionalism (1865-1920)

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Jack London, Kate Chopin, and John Steinbeck all belong to this American literary period.

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Naturalism (1880-1915)

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Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Porter, Ezra Pound, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, and Margaret Mitchell all belong to this American literary period.

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The Modern Period (1910-1945)

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Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston all belong to this American literary period.

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Harlem Renaissance (1920-1930)

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Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all belong to this American literary period.

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Lost Generation (1920-1950)

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J. D. Salinger, Alice Walker, Cormac McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Sandra Cisneros, Joseph Heller, Don DiLillo, Richard Wright, John Updike, Amy Tan, Kurt Vonnegut, Nikki Giovanni, August Wilson, and Ursula K. Le Guin all belong to this American literary period.

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Contemporary Literature (1950-present)

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Period of British literature in which people shared epic poems about courageous heroes; their concern was morality and goodness (449-1066).

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The Anglo-Saxon Period

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Period of British literature that focused on religion, romance, diversity, and chivalry. Morality plays and folk ballads were popular during this time (1066-1485).

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The Medieval Period

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Period of British literature which included the Elizabethan Age of great English drama and public theaters (1485-1660). People were interested in love and in the nature of human beings.

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The Renaissance Period

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Period of British literature in which comedies of manners, essays, and satires were popular (1660-1798); this period included the Age of Sensibility and is also referred to as the Enlightenment, a title that reflects the cultural emphasis on logic, reason, and rules.

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The Restoration Period

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Period of British literature that began as a reaction to the Enlightenment’s emphasis on rational thought. During this period, people believed truth was found in nature and unrestrained imaginative experience; many poems and lyrical ballads were written, as well as imaginative gothic horror novels (1785-1830).

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The Romantic Period

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Period of British literature that was a time of social, religious, and economic turmoil (1832-1900). The printing press was invented, and the growing middle class enjoyed the benefits of mass printing in the form of novels and magazines. Elegies were also popular.

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The Victorian Period

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Period of British literature in which writers preferred novels related to social issues in which characters experienced epiphanies (1900-1945). Some novelists played with style by writing in a stream of consciousness. By the late twentieth century, novelists became interested in psychology and close observation of human behaviors and relationships.

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The Modern Era

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Beowulf belongs to this British literary period.

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The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066) [Old English Period]

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Chaucer and Sir Thomas Mallory belong to this British literary period.

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The Medieval Period (1066-1485) [Middle English Period]

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Christopher Marlow, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Johnson, and John Milton all belong to this British literary period.

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The Renaissance Period (1485-1660) [Neoclassical Period]

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Elizabethan Age Writers:

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William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Johnson, John Milton

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