Praxis 5038 Reading and Literature Study Guide

represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral. Alliteration CORRECT ANSWER Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Allusion CORRECT ANSWER A reference to a familiar person, place, thing or event - for example, Don Juan, brave new world, Everyman, Machiavellian, utopia. Analogy CORRECT ANSWER A comparison of objects or ideas that appear, at first, to be different but are alike in some important way. Anapestic meter CORRECT ANSWER 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. Example: contradict Anaphora CORRECT ANSWER A rhetorical term for the repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several clauses. Anecdote CORRECT ANSWER A brief sotry that illustrates or makes a point. Antagonist CORRECT ANSWER A person or thing working against the hero, the protagonist, of a literary work. Anthropomorphism CORRECT ANS