Praxis : English Language Arts : Content Knowledge (5038)

Apostrophe CORRECT ANSWER Addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. Antithesis CORRECT ANSWER Using opposite phrases in close conjunction. Anastrophe CORRECT ANSWER Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme. Anticlimax CORRECT ANSWER A drop from a dignified or important idea...usually ridiculous or humorous. Archetype CORRECT ANSWER Universal symbol Blank verse CORRECT ANSWER Unrhymed iambic pentameter - lines of 10 syllables that don't rhyme, each even-numbered syllable has an accent. Burlesque CORRECT ANSWER Ridicules a topic by treating something exalted as if it were trivial. And vice versa. Caesura CORRECT ANSWER A pause. Sometimes signified by a slash or a comma. Chiasmus CORRECT ANSWER It involves taking parallelism and turning it inside out.