Praxis 5039 Study Guide Questions and Answers 2024

limerick - light of whimsical poetry. form of five anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba alliteration - repetition of initial consonant sounds anapestic meter - meter that is composed of feet that are short-short long or UU/ anaphora - repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of several clauses. assonance - repetition of the same sound in words close to one another. caesura - A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns. conceit - A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects foot - a metrical foot is one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (0-4) iambic foot - u/ trochaic foot - /u dactylic - /uu idiom - (n.) an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up malapropism - Absurd or humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound metonymy - A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it monologic - a literary theory term in which literature is viewed as transmitting an author's message spondee - A foot consisting of two stressed syllables ("dead set"), but is not a sustained metrical foot and is used mainly for variety or emphasis. trochee - metrical foot /u