Praxis II 5038 Flashcards on Poetry Terms

A philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that the search for order brings the individual into conflict with the universe.

Words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

<p>The fact of being similar in development or form; repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word or group of words that is used with a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, location, or time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A part of prosody that deals with metrical structure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A style that shows or describes people and things as they are in real life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of a language that is spoken in a particular area and that uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of the meanings of words and phrases in language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spelling.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A letter or group of letters added to the beginning or end of a word to change its meaning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Words having the same origin; related by descent from the same ancestral language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A participle intended to modify a noun that is not actually present in the text.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The English language from circa 1150 to circa 1470.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The English language used during the time of Shakespeare and the King James Version of the Bible.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The stage of the English language used from the late 15th century until the English Interregnum.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An epic poem originally written in Old English.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word or phrase that describes another word or group of words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>run-on sentence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is written in iambic pentameter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Anonymous narrative poems consisting of four-line stanzas with alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines, typically in abab or abcb rhyme scheme.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The way you behave, talk, etc., with other people that causes them to see you as a particular kind of person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A particular type or category of literature or art.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main character.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An opposing character.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The struggle to break free of his collectivist society and become an individual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A novel by Chinua Achebe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>William Golding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Bluest Eye; Beloved.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A novel by Amy Tan.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A novel by Alice Walker.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maxine Hong Kingston.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Race and identity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A series of questions that students are asked to respond to before a particular unit or lesson.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A strategy that uses a grid to help kids explore how sets of things are related to one another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An instructional activity where students become teachers in reading sessions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stories and novels with a nautical setting that depict trials of the human spirit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Great Expectations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using humor to show that someone or something is foolish or weak.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think, especially for humor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An exaggeration or language that describes something as better or worse than it really is.</p> Signup and view all the answers