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Praxis: English Language Arts:
Content Knowledge (5038) (A
combination of vocabulary
terms, teaching methods, and
descriptions of different
literary periods).
Terms in this set (201) _____________Quiz____________? Apostrophe -
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Addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. _____________Quiz____________? Setting -
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An environment or surrounding in which a story takes place. _____________Quiz____________? Anaphora -
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Regularly repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive clauses/phrases to add emphasis. Ex: Winston Churchill "we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets..." _____________Quiz____________? Antithesis -
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Using opposite phrases in close conjunction. Ex: Alexander Pope, "To err is human; to forgive divine." _____________Quiz____________? Anastrophe -
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Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme. Ex: "What a wonderful world it is." _____________Quiz____________? Anticlimax -
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A drop from a dignified or important idea...usually ridiculous or humorous. _____________Quiz____________? Anecdote -
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A brief story authors may relate, which can illustrate their points in a more relatable way. _____________Quiz____________? Archetype -
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Universal symbol _____________Quiz____________? Symbolism -
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Comparison between two things--usually for the purpose of explanation or clarity. Ex: similes, metaphors _____________Quiz____________? Blank Verse -
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter - lines of 10 syllables that don't rhyme, each even-numbered syllable has an accent. _____________Quiz____________? Burlesque -
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Ridicules a topic by treating something exalted as if it were trivial, and vice versa. _____________Quiz____________? Caesura -
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A pause. Sometimes signified by a slash or a comma. _____________Quiz____________? Chiasmus -
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Uses parallel clauses, the second reversing the order of the first. Ex: JFK "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." _____________Quiz____________? Catastrophe -
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The "turning downward" of a plot in a tragedy - usually in the 4th act, after the climax.
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Events that bring about a moral or spiritual renewal. Relief from tension. _____________Quiz____________? Cliché -
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Trite phrase that has become overused. _____________Quiz____________? Connotation -
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Emotional meaning of a word, plus it's literal meaning. _____________Quiz____________? Consonance -
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A type of alliteration where the consonants stay the same but the vowels change. _____________Quiz____________? Denotation -
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The literal meaning of a word. _____________Quiz____________? Denouement -
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The outcome after a string of complex events, i.e. the end of a story.
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A figure of speech/word/phrase that is applied to an object or action to which is not literally applicable. Ex: "My brother was boiling mad". _____________Quiz____________? Figurative Language -
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Offers readers insight into people, events, things, or subjects beyond the page. Ex: alliteration, personification, imagery, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, hyperbole. _____________Quiz____________? Allegory -
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Figure of speech with abstract ideas, used to describe characters/figures/events. Ex: Animal Farm (animals used as communists) _____________Quiz____________? Sentence Fragment -
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Missing some essential component: a subject, predicate, or a dependent clause with no independent clause. Ex: "When we got in the car. We rolled down the windows." _____________Quiz____________? Aphorism -
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Concisely state common beliefs and may often rhyme. Ex: Benjamin Franklin's "early to bed and early to rise..."
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A contradiction that oddly makes sense. Ex: "You can save money by spending it." _____________Quiz____________? Parallelism -
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When there are similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. _____________Quiz____________? Persona -
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An external representation of oneself. _____________Quiz____________? Quatrain -
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A stanza of 4 lines. _____________Quiz____________? Rhyme Royal -
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7 lines, poetry, iambic pentameter, fixed rhyme scheme. _____________Quiz____________? Hyperbole -
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6 - line rhyme with a varying pattern. _____________Quiz____________? Syllogism -
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Refers either to deductive reasoning or a deceptive, very sophisticated or subtle argument. Ex: All men are mortal. John is a man. John must be mortal. _____________Quiz____________? Deductive Reasoning -
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Moves from general to specific. Is the argument valid, or invalid? _____________Quiz____________? Inductive Reasoning -
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Moves from specific to general. Are the premises of the argument true, and do they support the conclusion? _____________Quiz____________? Sprung Rhythm -
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Accentual rhythm - the accent falls on the first syllable of every foot. _____________Quiz____________? Spenserian Stanza -
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9 - line stanza - first eight lines are pentameter and the last line is alexandrine. _____________Quiz____________? Stock Character -
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Appears repeatedly in a particular literary genre. _____________Quiz____________? Strophe -
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A stanza sung aloud, alternating with the antistrophe. _____________Quiz____________? Synecdoche -
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A part of an object representing the whole. _____________Quiz____________? Terza Rima -
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3 - line stanza form with interlocking rhymes that move from one stanza to the next. ABA BCB CDC _____________Quiz____________? Zuegma -
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Using a single verb to defer to two different objects in a way that is unusual - "kill the boys and the luggage"
A story being told from the "I" perspective _____________Quiz____________? Second Person -
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is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms, for example the English second-person pronoun "you". _____________Quiz____________? Third Person -
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The narrator is using "he" "she" "they" _____________Quiz____________? Objective Third Person -
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Doesn't include what characters are thinking/feeling. _____________Quiz____________? Subjective Third Person -
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Does include what characters are thinking/feeling. _____________Quiz____________? Third Person Omnicscient -
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The narrator knows everything. _____________Quiz____________?
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The narrator may know everything about a particular character or characters; only knows what the character knows. _____________Quiz____________? Epic (poem) -
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Large scale in length and topic with elevated language. Sometimes features the supernatural. Ex: Virgil's "Aeneid", Milton's "Paradise Lost", Homer's "The Odyssey" _____________Quiz____________? Ballad -
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A song, originally transmitted orally, which tells a story. Usually a 4-line stanza, alternating tetrameter and trimeter. _____________Quiz____________? Lyric (poem) -
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A comparatively short poem. Non-narrative. Describes a state of mind of emotional state. Often used in songs. Ex: elegy, ode, sonnet _____________Quiz____________? Elegy -
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A lament for the death of a person. Ex: Tennyson's "In Memoriam"
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A verbal representation in verse of a sequence of events with a plot. Always told by a narrator. Representatives of epics and ballads. _____________Quiz____________? Novel -
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Fictitious prose narrative, with some degree of realism usually _____________Quiz____________? Prose (poem) -
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Written/spoken language in it's ordinary form, without metrical structure _____________Quiz____________? Haiku -
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5 syllables in first line, 7 Syllables in the second, and 5 Syllables in the third line _____________Quiz____________? Bildungsroman -
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An "education novel" focusing on coming-of-age stories, including youth's struggles and searches for things such as identity, spiritual understanding, or the meaning in life. Ex: "David Copperfield," "Great Expectations," "Catcher in the Rye," "Lord of the Flies" _____________Quiz____________? Novel of Manners -
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Fictional stories that observe, explore, and analyze the social behaviors of a specific time and place. Characteristics include descriptions of society w/ defined behavioral codes; use of standardized, impersonal formulas in language; inhibition of emotional expression. Ex: Jane Austen _____________Quiz____________? Roman à Clef -
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"Novel with a key", meaning the story needs a real-life frame of reference for full comprehension. Often disguises truths too dangerous for the author to state explicitly. Ex: "Animal Farm", "Canterbury Tales: the Nun's Priest's Tale" _____________Quiz____________? Gothic (novel) -
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Combined elements of horror and romance. For Example: Edgar Allen Poe's "The Casque of Amontillado" _____________Quiz____________? Pastoral (novel) -
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Novel set in beautiful, rural, landscapes _____________Quiz____________?
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~1100-- 15 00. Many authors were anonymous, and much literature was passed on orally. Religious. Themes of courtly love, chivalry, romance. The Great Vowel Shift. Ex: Ormulum, 12th Century Epithath of John the Smyth, Chaucer, Gower. _____________Quiz____________? British Renaissance period -
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Mid-15th--early-17th century. Themes of humanism, religion vs. magic, exploration, math/science/tech, mythology and classic tradition. Ex: Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Spenser, Wyatt. _____________Quiz____________? British Neoclassical period -
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Mid-17th--1800. Social order was undergoing immense change. Enlightenment thinking pushed reason as the primary basis of authority. Social needs > personal needs; reason comes from religious, social, nature, governmental order. Ex: John Dryden, Alexander Pope, John Wesley, Daniel DeFoe, Molière _____________Quiz____________? British Romantic period -
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End-18th--1860. Characterized by narratives/poems/short stores of relatable people. Valued feelings and intuition over reasoning; sought to journey away form the corruption of civilization; helped instill societal norms. Ex: Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Keates, Percy Shelley, Whitman, Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Douglass _____________Quiz____________? American Renaissance period -
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End-18th--1860. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Thoreau _____________Quiz____________? British Victorian period -
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1830 - early--20th century. Themes of industrialization, class and status, science vs. religion, progress, nostalgia, issues of women and their changing roles. Ex: Dickens, Bronteë sisters, George Eliot, Tennyson, Yeats, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw _____________Quiz____________? American Naturalistic period -
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Late-19th--early-20th century. Opposite of romanticism in its quest to protray the real world. Dark and gritty. Tone is distant, non-judgmental. Man is at the mercy of nature, an dacts according to nature. Character-driven as opposed to plot-driven. Typically about lower socioeconomic classes. Ex: Zola, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris _____________Quiz____________? Romanticism -
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First half of the 19th century. Reaction to Enlightenment ideals. Radical, progressive politics, yet also conservative in its influences on increased nationalism. Championed individualism, freedom of expression etc. Ex: Poe, Hawthorne, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth _____________Quiz____________? Realism -
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A literary form whose goal is to represent reality as faithfully as possible. Genesis in Western literature. Uses vernacular; dialects; character development > plot development; ethical issues; concentrated on the middle-class.
