Praxis: English Language Arts: Content Knowledge (5038) Already Graded A

Praxis: English Language Arts: Content Knowledge (5038) Already Graded A Apostrophe Addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. Antithesis Using opposite phrases in close conjunction. Anastrophe Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme. Anticlimax A drop from a dignified or important idea...usually ridiculous or humorous. Archetype Universal symbol Blank verse Unrhymed iambic pentameter - lines of 10 syllables that don't rhyme, each even-numbered syllable has an accent. Burlesque Ridicules a topic by treating something exalted as if it were trivial. And vice versa. Caesura A pause. Sometimes signified by a slash or a comma. Chiasmus It involves taking parallelism and turning it inside out. Catastrophe The "turning downward" of a plot in a tragedy - usually in the 4th act, after the climax. Catharsis Events that bring about a moral or spiritual renewal. Relief from tension. Cliche Trite phrase that has become overused. Connotation What words mean past their literal definition. Consonance A type of alliteration where the consonants stay the same but the vowels change. Denotation What a word means, strictly based on its definition. Denouement The outcome after a string of complex events. Exposition Telling, not showing. Free verse Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. Metonymy Using an object to embody a general idea. Motif A recurring element that appears frequently in works of literature. Paradox A contradiction that oddly makes sense. Parallelism When there are similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. Persona An external representation of oneself. Quatrain A stanza of 4 lines. Rhyme royal 7 lines, poetry, iambic pentameter, fixed rhyme scheme. Sarcasm Saying one thing but meaning another. Scansion The art of scanning a poem to determine its meter. Satire Criticism or an attack on something that the author doesn't agree with / sees as stupid. Soliloquy Speech given by a character that believes to be alone. What the character says is what they're truly thinking. Sestet 6-line rhyme with a varying pattern. Sprung rhythm Accentual rhythm - the accent falls on the first syllable of every foot. Spenserian stanza 9-line stanza - first eight lines are pentameter and the last line is alexandrine. Stock character Appears repeatedly in a particular literary genre. Strophe A stanza sung aloud, alternating with the antistrophe. Synecdoche A part of an object representing the whole. Terza rima 3-line stanza form with interlocking rhymes that move from one stanza to the next. ABA BCB CDC Zuegma Using a single verb to defer to two different objects in a way that is unusual - "kill the boys and the luggage"