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Praxis II: English Content & Analysis Exam (5039)Study Guide
Vocabulary:
Constructivism: as readers become involved with a text they construct meaning
through an active process of integrating what they are reading with their own
reactions, knowledge, belief and ideas
Schemas: cognitive connections that are molded in an individual’s mind over time
and shape a person’s worldview
Literary criticism: the formal study, analysis and evaluation of literary texts
American literature: usually studied chronologically or thematically beginning with
texts from the early colonists who wrote about exploration.
Canon: a group of works that are considered to be culturally, artistically or
historically significant.
Conceit: a figure of speech that creates a parallel between two dissimilar things
o Ex: The Sun Rising by John Donne (the sun/busy old fool)
Rhyme scheme: arrangement of rhyming words in a stanza or poem
Slant rhyme: not a true rhyme, substitutes assonance or consonance
Internal rhyme: rhyming two core more words in the same line of poetry
Rhythm: heartbeat of a poem
Meter: established rhythm within a poem in which accentuated syllables are repetitive
and predictable
Foot: unit of meter that has stressed and unstressed syllables
Iamb: familiar poetic foot which occurs when an unaccented syllable is followed by
an accented one
o EX: the word contain.
, Blank verse: poetry that is written in iambic pentameter and unrhymed –
Shakespeare/Paradise Lost
Free verse: poetry without patterns
Repetition: to emphasize important ideas and heighten language
Assonance: inclusion of words with the same vowel sound within one or two lines of
poetry
Consonance: repetition of the same consonant sounds at the end of a stressed syllable
but following different vowel sounds
o “Whose woods are these”
Closed form: poetry that follows a given formula or shape
o EX: quatrain, sonnet, ballad
Open form: does not have restrictions
Literary theory: using a set of principles or system of ideas to interpret literature from
a unique angle
Reader-response theory: centered on the idea that as readers read, they experience a
transaction with the text.
Feminist literary theory: involves asking questions about the degree to which a
literary text perpetuates the ideas that women are inferior to and dependent upon men.
Queer theory: investigates texts by asking questions about gender and sexuality
Deconstructionist literary criticism: focuses on dissecting and uncovering the writer’s
assumptions about what is true and false, good and bad.
Semiotic analysis: study of signs, signals, visual messages, and gestures.
Marxist theory: focuses on the economic system that structure society and the ways
human behavior is motivated by a desire for economic power.
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