English Praxis II Famous Quotes and Novels
The Great Vowel Shift occurred during which time span?
15th to 18th century
"If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love"
1984, George Orwell
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."
1984, George Orwell
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
1984, George Orwell
"When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love."
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."
A Tale of Two Cities', Charles Dickens
"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
What is a portmanteau
A word formed from 2 other words
"If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!"
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
"Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."
Animal Farm, George Orwell
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be."
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
What is the moral of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Being human is more than just having human body parts
What theme/trope really drives George Eliot's work?
Both realism and a focus on rural life
"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
What is an example of a portamenteau?
Brunch (Breakfast+Lunch)
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
Cather in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
"I assure you that the world is not so amusing as something we imagined."
Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
"There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty."
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
"I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning."
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
"Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?"
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
"That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!"
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies."
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old"
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
"I will wear him; In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart."
Hamlet, Shakespeare
"Listen to many, speak to a few."
Hamlet, Shakespeare
"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, W.B. Yeats
"Every atom of your flesh is dear to me as my own: In pain and sickness it would still be dear"
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will"
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
"The thing is- fear can't hurt you any more than a dream."
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
"They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate."
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
When they are taught effective reading comprehension strategies that not only achieve deeper understanding but also learn to think about how they think when reading is?
Metacognition
"There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive."
Night, Elie Wiesel
"Time, which sees all things, has found you out."
Oedipus the King, Sophocles
"Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
"The best teacher is experienced and not through someone's distorted point of view"
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
"Our scars make us know that our past was for real."
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Which of the following is NOT an element of good diction?
Repeating yourself often to make a point
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
"Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie."
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
"Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it."
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
The English word "salary" has a 2,000-year-old etymology to a word meaning...?
Salt
In the word-recognition model of the Three Cueing Systems used in teaching reading, which of the following is most associated with the meanings of words?
Semantic system
"What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
"I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold."
The Canterbury Tales', Chaucer
"One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple."
The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein
What historical event was one of the main sparks for the birth of Romantic poetry?
The French Revolution
"Don't suppress your individuality for the sake of conformity."
The Giver, Lois Lowry
"How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?"
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone ... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Not all those who wander are lost."
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
"I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me."
The Odyssey, Homer
"I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me."
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
"Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset."
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
"I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!"
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
The Tempest, Shakespeare
What is found to be unique to second language learning?
The process of fossilization
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
What is an accurate characterization of dialects?
They are often seen as less socially acceptable
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson
What is the process of fossilization?
When some of the incorrect forms a learner of a second language has developed are not corrected over time, but become permanently fixed.
What areas were affected in the long run by the Great Vowel Shift?
Written spelling, teaching reading, and text comprehension
"She burned too bright for this world"
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
When should we teach students to activate prior knowledge
before, after, and during
What is another name for group nouns?
collective nouns
Kate noticed that all the desks in her math and science classrooms are blue. She concludes that all the desks in all of the classrooms must also be blue. This is an example of ?
inductive reasoning
What is etymology?
the study of word origins