English romantic verse Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Parable realistic and has a moral Legend exaggerated story about people Myth literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes, usually expressing a cultures ideals Folktale language of the people, does not need a moral, and main purpose is to entertain Fairytales element of magic, usually follows a pattern, and presents an "ideal", may contain "magic 3" or "stereotyping" Fable non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main character Fable Aesop- "The Fox and t...

Praxis 5038 Study Guide (2023/2024) 100% Pass Modernism Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness/Modernist Henry James Portrait of an Artist/Realism Maya Angelou Caged Bird Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice/Elizabethan Ray Badbury Fahrenheit 451/Science Fiction Stephen Crane Red Badge of Courage/Realism Emily Dickinson American Renaisssance Emerson Self Reliance/Transcendentalism Fitzgerald Great Gats...

English Literature CLEP Latest 2023 Graded A heroic couple a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines, first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit, esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: "In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend") terza rima -(tert′sə rē′mə) a verse form of Italian origin, made up of tercets, the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba,...

ABCTE ELA Exam 202 Questions with Verified Answers Paragraph - CORRECT ANSWER A group of connected sentences covering one main topic in a work of prose (such as novels) Stanza - CORRECT ANSWER A group of verses covering one main topic in a work of poetry Couplets - CORRECT ANSWER two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. Dialogue - CORRECT ANSWER Conversation between characters, typically in a play Monologue or Soliloquy - CORRECT ANSWE...

11th Grade American Lit. Final Exam Review Sheet Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Writing in Colonial Times - ANSWER-writings were for recording purposes. Usually of rough times in the new world Iroquois lineage - ANSWER-this lineage follows from mothers. Puritans - ANSWER-English Protestant dissenters who believed that God predestined souls to heaven or hell before birth. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. a mjor way of life and everything was done with this outlook The Fiv...

Praxis 5038 Latest Update Already Passed ballads A form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs". drama A composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage fable A literary device which can be defined as a concise and brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at t...

Praxis 5038 Latest Update with Verified Solutions James Fenimore Cooper Wrote famous series Leatherstocking Tales: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer. First book was Precaution, which attempted to satirize Jane Austens novels. Last of the Mohicans Main character-Natty Bumppo (Hawkeye), setting 1757 Upstate NY, Seven Years War Harriet Beecher Stowe Born 1811 CT, wrote Uncle Toms Cabin Uncle Toms Cabin Story of a slave sold from KY into a life of...

Shakespeare - Answer 1564-1616 154 poems survived 38 plays William Faulkner - Answer - 1897-1962 - The Sound and the Fury - As I Lay Dying - A Rose For Emily William Chaucer - Answer (1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales - Answer - Written by Chaucer - Takes place in middles ages with a cross section of society - literary context is "frame tale" - pilgrims all on their way to Canterbury and they take turns telling tales to amuse the others frame tale - Answer story within a stor...

TExES English, Language Arts, and Reading 7-12 231 Latest Update Graded A+ You and I/Me "Between You and I" is wrong, "You and I were meant to fly" is correct Less and Fewer Fewer is used when you can count the objects, less is used when you can't Who and Whom Whom is an objective pronoun (An objective pronoun acts as the object of a sentence—it receives the action of the verb. The objective pronouns are her, him, it, me, them, us, and you); it should be used to refer to the object of a...

Arthur Miller - Answer- "The Death of a Salesman" depicted a man whose failure made him feel like an outcast. Alexander Pope - Answer- (1710-1728) "Rape of the Lock", "An Essay on Man", "The Dunciad" Classical Period - Answer- 1200bc - 455ce Forms: lyric poetry, greek drama (tragedy, comedy)(chorus, deus ex machina) Themes: life/death, morality, season changes, political commentary, satire, Greek mythology, Greek wars, Greek Gods, Roman life Homer (Greek) - Answer- The Iliad a...