Praxis Ii: English Content & Analysis Exam (5039) Study Guide

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 individuals mind over time and shape a persons 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 oEx: 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