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OAE English Language Arts 020 Study
Guide Solutions
stanza - ANSWER✔✔-A group of lines in a poem
lyric vs. narrative poem - ANSWER✔✔-lyric -- does not tell a story/expresses the personal feelings,
observations, or thoughts of a speaker
narrative -- poem that tells story
sonnet - ANSWER✔✔-a 14 line poem containing 3 quatrains and 1 couplet
quatrain - ANSWER✔✔-A four line stanza
cinquain - ANSWER✔✔-a poem with 5 lines that contains a 2-4-6-8-2 syllable pattern
haiku - ANSWER✔✔-3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature
limerick - ANSWER✔✔-a silly, nonsense poem with 5 lines in a AABBA rhyme scheme
proverb - ANSWER✔✔-a short traditional saying that expresses wisdom
concrete poem - ANSWER✔✔-a poem in which the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to
the content of the poem
ode - ANSWER✔✔-A poem in praise of something divine or noble; usually serious in tone
Denotative - ANSWER✔✔-Dictionary definition
Connotative - ANSWER✔✔-The ideas or concepts a word suggests in addition to its literal definition.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Understanding what you have read by making
connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, synthesizing and metacognition.
Literal Comprehension - ANSWER✔✔-The lowest level of understanding. It involves reading the lines and
understanding exactly what is on the page. Students can repeat or paraphrase what they have read.
Inferential Comprehension - ANSWER✔✔-Understanding of information that isn't explicitly given, but
rather implied in a written passage. (make predictions)
Evaluative Comprehension - ANSWER✔✔-Ability to use critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and
aesthetic considerations to evaluate a text.
Appreciative Comprehension - ANSWER✔✔-Considering the author's purpose for writing the text. You
may not "like" classical music, but can you appreciate the skill, talent, and years of training of the
musicians or composer?
Stylistic Text Features - ANSWER✔✔-Figurative Language to Text Style
Informational Text - ANSWER✔✔-Nonfiction written primarily to convey factual information.
Informational texts comprise the majority of printed material adults read (e.g., textbooks, newspapers,
reports, directions, brochures, technical manuals).
Persuasive Text - ANSWER✔✔-Writing to present an argument or point of view; editorials, propaganda,
advertisement.
Rhetorical Devices - ANSWER✔✔-Rhetorical devices are common, such as saying language is a living
beast: that's a metaphor — one of the most common rhetorical devices. Another is alliteration, like
saying "bees behave badly in Boston." Rhetorical devices go beyond the meaning of words to create
effects that are creative and imaginative, adding literary quality to writing.
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Drama Characteristics - ANSWER✔✔-Highly emotional, usually focuses on humans and involves a "crisis
of feeling" - a painful or harmful experience.
Poetry Characteristics - ANSWER✔✔-Figurative language, meter, sound, imagery, format.
Meter - ANSWER✔✔-Beat or Rhythm in Poetry
Iamb - ANSWER✔✔-Unstressed, Stressed
Trochee - ANSWER✔✔-Stressed, Unstressed
Anapest - ANSWER✔✔-Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed
Dactyl - ANSWER✔✔-Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed
Phonemes - ANSWER✔✔-In a language or dialect, this is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed
to form meaningful contrasts between utterances.
Allophones - ANSWER✔✔-The subtle variations of phonemes that occur as a result of contextual
influences on how phonemes are produced in different words
Rhetoric - ANSWER✔✔-The art or study of persuasion through speaking or writing; language that is
elaborate or pretentious but actually empty, meaning little
Structural Elements - ANSWER✔✔-Exposition, Climax, Meter, Stanzas
Sound Devices - ANSWER✔✔-elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia - gives
poetry a musical quality.
Open Ended Question - ANSWER✔✔-Gives the interviewee a measure of control over the interview.
Allows interviewees to select their answer.
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