Praxis: English Language Arts: Content
Knowledge (5038) Exam Questions and
Answers
Apostrophe - Answer-Addressing some abstraction or personification that is not
physically present.
Antithesis - Answer-Using opposite phrases in close conjunction.
Anastrophe - Answer-Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme.
Anticlimax - Answer-A drop from a dignified or important idea...usually ridiculous or
humorous.
Archetype - Answer-Universal symbol
Blank verse - Answer-Unrhymed iambic pentameter - lines of 10 syllables that don't
rhyme, each even-numbered syllable has an accent.
Burlesque - Answer-Ridicules a topic by treating something exalted as if it were trivial.
And vice versa.
Caesura - Answer-A pause. Sometimes signified by a slash or a comma.
Chiasmus - Answer-It involves taking parallelism and turning it inside out.
Catastrophe - Answer-The "turning downward" of a plot in a tragedy - usually in the 4th
act, after the climax.
Catharsis - Answer-Events that bring about a moral or spiritual renewal. Relief from
tension.
Cliche - Answer-Trite phrase that has become overused.
Connotation - Answer-What words mean past their literal definition.
Consonance - Answer-A type of alliteration where the consonants stay the same but the
vowels change.
Denotation - Answer-What a word means, strictly based on its definition.
Denouement - Answer-The outcome after a string of complex events.
Knowledge (5038) Exam Questions and
Answers
Apostrophe - Answer-Addressing some abstraction or personification that is not
physically present.
Antithesis - Answer-Using opposite phrases in close conjunction.
Anastrophe - Answer-Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme.
Anticlimax - Answer-A drop from a dignified or important idea...usually ridiculous or
humorous.
Archetype - Answer-Universal symbol
Blank verse - Answer-Unrhymed iambic pentameter - lines of 10 syllables that don't
rhyme, each even-numbered syllable has an accent.
Burlesque - Answer-Ridicules a topic by treating something exalted as if it were trivial.
And vice versa.
Caesura - Answer-A pause. Sometimes signified by a slash or a comma.
Chiasmus - Answer-It involves taking parallelism and turning it inside out.
Catastrophe - Answer-The "turning downward" of a plot in a tragedy - usually in the 4th
act, after the climax.
Catharsis - Answer-Events that bring about a moral or spiritual renewal. Relief from
tension.
Cliche - Answer-Trite phrase that has become overused.
Connotation - Answer-What words mean past their literal definition.
Consonance - Answer-A type of alliteration where the consonants stay the same but the
vowels change.
Denotation - Answer-What a word means, strictly based on its definition.
Denouement - Answer-The outcome after a string of complex events.
