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Praxis 2 (0041)
terms and concepts found in the Praxis 2 exam
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Undergraduate 4
05/28/2013

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Allegory
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A story in which people (things or actions) represent an idea or generalization about life. Usuall have a lesson or moral (fable).
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allusion
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a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication:The novel's title is an allusion to Shakespeare.
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analogy
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a comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
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anapestic meter
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meter that is composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented, usually used in light or whimsical poetry, such as a limerick.
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anecdote
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a breif story that illistrates or makes a point
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antagonist
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person or thing working against the the hero (protagionist)
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aphorism
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a wise saying, usually short and written
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apostrophe
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A tuen from the general audience to address a specfic group, who is present or absent. (Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly yo one woman about his fathers death)
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assonance
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a repetition of the same sound in words close to one another (white stripes)
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blank verse
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unrhymed verse, often occuring in iambic pentameter
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caesura
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a break in the rhythm of language, particularly a natural pause in a line of verse, marked in prosody by a double vertical line ('')
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characterization
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a method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits
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consonance
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repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
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couplet
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a stanza made of 2 rhyming lines
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diction
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an authors choice of words based on clearness, conciseness, etc.
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archaic
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old-fashioned words that do not exist anymore, thee, thou, etc.
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colloquialism
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expressions
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dialect
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variety of language based on geographic region
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jaron
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specialized language to the subject
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end rhyme
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rhymingof the ends of lines of verse
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enjambment
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also known as a run-on line in poetry, occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning
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existentalism
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a phiolosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. Jean-Paul Sartre is the foremost existentialist. Other famous existentalist writers include Soren kierkegaard (father of existentalism), Albert Camus, freidrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka and Simone de Beauvior.
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foot
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a metrical foot (poetry)
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iambic
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u ' (unstressed, stressed)
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trochaic
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' u (stressed, unstressed)
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anapestic
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uu ' (unstressed, unstressed, stressed)
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dactylic
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' uu (stressed, unstressed, unstressed)
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monometer
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one foot
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dimeter
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2 feet
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trimeter
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3 feet
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terameter
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4 feet
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pentameter
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5 feet
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hexameter
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6 feet
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septameter
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7 feet
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octameter
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8 feet
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heroic couplet
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a pair of lines od poetic verse written in iambic pentameter
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hubris
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the flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero, comes from greek word meaning "excessive pride"
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hyperbole
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an exaggeration for emphasis
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internal rhyme
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rhyme that occurs within a line of verse
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dramatic irony
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the reader sees a chracter's errors, but the character does not
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verbal irony
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the writer says one thing and means another
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situational irony
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the purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
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malapropism
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a type of pun that results when two words become mixed up in the speakers mind (ex: dont put the horse before the cart)
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metaphor
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figure of speech where is comparison is implied but not stated.
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meter
Definition
rhythmical pattern in verse made up of stressed and unstressed syllables
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onomatopoeia
Definition
sound words like buzz or click
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oxymoron
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a phrase that consists of two contradictory terms (deafening silence)
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paradox
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a contradictory statement that makes sense (ex: man learns from history that man learns nothing from history)
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refrain
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the repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, particularly at the end of each stanza
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rhetoric
Definition
persuasive writing
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transcendentalism
Definition
during the mid-19th century in new england, several writters and intellectualls worked together to write, translate and publish and became known as transcendentalists. Focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. Valued individualism, freedom, experimentation, and spirituality. They include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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ballad
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a short poem, short verses, inended to be sung
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canto
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the main section of a long poem
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elegy
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a poem that is mournful lament for the dead
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epic
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long narrative hero poem
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haiku
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3 line japanesse poem, 17 syllables, 5-7-5
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limerick
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a humorousverse from 5 anapestic
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sonnet
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14 line poem, unually iambic pentameter
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couplet
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2 line stanza
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triplet
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3 line stanza
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quatrain
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4 line stanza
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quintet
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5 line stanza
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sestet
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6 line stanza
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septet
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7 line stanza
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octave
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8 line stanza
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frame tale
Definition
a narrative technique where the main story is comprised toorganize a set of shorter stories
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novella
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short narrative, between 50-100 pages long
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parody
Definition
mocks an author or work
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romance
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a novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life
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greeck classical and hellenistic periods
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(8th to 2nd centuries bc) The illiad, Oedipus Rex, (homer, arostile, plato)
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roman classical period
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(1st century bc to 2-5th century ad) Atticus, Butus, history of rome and gods
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renaissance
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13th-15th centuries- learning and arts flourished, dante's divine comedy, chaucer's canterbury tales and malory's morte d' arthur
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french neoclassical period
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17th century
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english neoclassical period
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17&18th century (1660-1780)- gullivers travels, Dryden
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german neoclassical period
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18&19th century - faust
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old english period
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(450-1066 ad) beowulf
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middle english period
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(1066-1550)- chaucer and morte d arthur
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elizabethan period
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(1550-1625) shakespeare
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puritan period
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(1625-1660) Walton, Milton, Bunyan
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romantic period
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(1780-1840) Don Juan, Autsins pride and prejudice
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victorian period
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(1840-1900) Dickens, Tennyson
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modernism
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(1900-1945) Yeats, woolf
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postmodernism
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(1945-present) Nietzsche, Orwell, Eliot
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american....Colonial period
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(1630-1760) willam and hooker, Franklin
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revolutionary period
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(1760-1787) Jefferson, Declaration of ind, Brown and Freneau
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nationalists period
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(1828-1836) cooper, irving, pairie, pioneer, legend of sleepy hollow
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American renaissance period
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(1830-1860) dickinson, whitman, thoreau
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modern period
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(1900-1945) twain, frost, london,Eliot, james
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contemporary
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(1945-present) miller, morrison, salinger
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denouement
Definition
the outcome or resolution to a story
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phonetics
Definition
the study of the sounds of language and their physical properties
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phonology
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the analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect
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morphology
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the study of the structure of words
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semantics
Definition
the study of the meaning og language
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syntax
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the study of the structure of sentences
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pragmatics
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the role of context in the interpretation of meaning
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Sociolinguistics
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the study of language as it relates to society, race, class, gender, age
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ethnolinguistics

 

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the study of language as it relates to culture
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psycholinguistics
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the study of language as it relates to the psychological factors that enable learning
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declarative sentence
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makes a statement
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interrogative sentence
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asks a question
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imperative sentence
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issues a command
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exclamatory sentence
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communicates strong ideas or feelings (!)
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conditional sentence
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expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact
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semicolon
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separate groups to set off independant clauses.
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John Dewy
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Theory: Learning through experience. "father of progressive education" values individuallyity and problem solving
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Albert Bandura
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Theory: Social or Observational learning (modeling). Attention, retention, reproduction, motivation.
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Erik Erikson
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Theory: Eight stages of human development. Infancy (trust vs. mistrust), toddlerhood (autonomy vs. doubt), early childhood (initiative vs. guilt), elementary/middle school (competence vs. inferiority), adolesence (identity vs. role confusion), young adulthood (intimacy vs. isolation), middle adulthood (generativity vs. stagnation) and late adulthood (integrity vs.despair)
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Lawrence Kohlberg
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Theory: Moral Development. 1 Preconventional obediance and punishment. 2 Preconventional Individualism, instrumentalism and exchange. 3 conventional "good boy/ good girl". 4 conventional law and order. 5 postconventional social contract. 6 postconventional principled conscience
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Abraham Maslow
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Theory: Hierarchy of needs. 1)physiological needs(basic needs air food etc). 2)Safety needs (consistancy, secure home and family). 3)love and belongingness needs (people need groups to belong to). 4)esteem needs (self-esteem) 5)self-actualization (acheveied first four levels and now maximize their potential, oneness, peace, etc)
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Jean Piaget
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Theory: Stages of cognative development. Birth-2 sensorimotor, explore world through senses and motor skills. 2-7 preoperational, believes other veiw world as they do. 7-11 concrete operational, reason logically in familiar situations. 11-up formal operational can reason in hypothetical situations and use abstract thought.
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B.F. Skinner
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Theory: Operant conditioning. Behaviorism, learning is a function of change in observable behavior. Rewards reinforce behavior
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Lev Vygotsky
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Theory: Zone of proximal development. Students learn best in a social context
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Howard Gardner
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Theory: Multiple intelligences. Verbal(linguistic), logical(mathematical), visual(spatial), bodily, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, nature
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Nitza Hidalgo
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Theory: Three levels of culture. Concrete-most visible and tangible level of culture. Behavioral-level is defined by social roles, lanuage and non-verbal communication. Symbolic-level of culture with values and beliefs
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Luis Moll
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Theory: Funds of knowledge. knowledge that schools don't know about, families become social and intellectual resources for schools.
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ADA
Definition
Americans with Disabilites act. prohibits discrimination based on ability
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IDEA
Definition
Individuals with Disabilites Education Act. Grants and programs to help educate disabiled people. Lists disabilities and the conditions that entitle a student to special education
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IEP
Definition
Individualized education plan
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Differentiated instruction
Definition
flexable approach to teaching
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