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OAE Language Arts (20)Epistolary Poems - CORRECT ANSWER-A poem in the form of a letter. From the
Latin word "epistula" for letter.
Idiomatic Expression - CORRECT ANSWER-Does not mean exactly what is
said. EX. Raining Cats and Dogs
Alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER-The occurrence of the same letter or sound at
the beginning of closely connected words.
Metonymy - CORRECT ANSWER-Metaphor or substitute. Example: Big house
and Prison
Onomatopoeia - CORRECT ANSWER-formation of a word from a sound
associated with that. Example splash and sizzle.
Aphorism - CORRECT ANSWER-Concisely state common beliefs and may
rhyme. EX, Early to bed early to rise.
First person Narration - CORRECT ANSWER-Let narrators express inner
feelings or thoughts.
Free Verse - CORRECT ANSWER-No rhyme or meter.
Tetrameter - CORRECT ANSWER-Four beats, stressed syllables.
Hexameter - CORRECT ANSWER-Six beats, stressed syllables.
Heptameter - CORRECT ANSWER-Seven beats, stressed syllables.
Hyperbole - CORRECT ANSWER-Exaggeration. Overstatement. Ex: I am
starving.
Simile - CORRECT ANSWER-Comparing one thing with another thing of a
different kind.
, Pentameter - CORRECT ANSWER-5 Stressed Syllables or beats.
Villanelles - CORRECT ANSWER-A 19 line poem with two rhymes throughout.
With the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternatively at the
end of the other tercets with both repeating at the close of the concluding
quatrain.
Sonnet - CORRECT ANSWER-Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter tightly
organized around a theme.
Third Person - CORRECT ANSWER-Not involved in the story.
Unreliable narrator - CORRECT ANSWER-Character who tells the reader a story
that cannot be taken at face value. This may be because the point of view
character is insane, lying, deluded. EX Poe, murder mysteries.
Prosody - CORRECT ANSWER-Pattern of rhythm and sound used in poetry.
Song like.
Fabiau - CORRECT ANSWER-A metrical tale characterized by sexual and
scatological obscenity. Contrary to the church and nobility. EX: Millers Tale.
Ballad - CORRECT ANSWER-14th and 15th century France. Traditional English
and American folk songs and poems. Often rhymed and metered.
Frame Tale - CORRECT ANSWER-Story within a story. Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley. Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Zone of proximal development - CORRECT ANSWER-Can accomplish tasks
with assistance, synonyms with scaffolding. Distance between the actual
development level as determined by independent problem solving and the level
of potential.
The Great Vowel Shift - CORRECT ANSWER-1350-1600. 15th to 18th century. 8
Steps. long vowels changed pronunciation. Caused the long vowels to shift
higher up.
Metacognition - CORRECT ANSWER-awareness in ones own thought process.
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