Epic poems - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PRAXIS 2 MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (5047)-READING WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% 2023 Drama a piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on stage. Poetry Written in verses that may be complete sentences, clauses, or phrases. Rhyming or unrhymed verse. Poetry meter following a particular rhythmic pattern: iambic, dactylic, spondaic, trochaic, or anapestic-w/o regular meter. Also, described by the number of beats or stressed syllables per verse. Gives the poem flow...

Epic poems - Answer a long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero, adventures Epistolary Poetry - Answer written and read as letters Ballads - Answer songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure, romance, death and religion Elegies - Answer poems of loss that express both praise for the dead and an element of consolation Odes - Answer Poems that express strong emotions about life, evolved from songs Epigrams/ limericks - Answer Known for humor and ...

English (002) MTTC questions and answers latest 2023Upton Sinclair American novelist, journalist and essayist; "The Jungle" - attacked and exposed abuses in the Chicago meat packing industry - instrumental in forcing the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act; "King Coal", "Boston"; A "muckracker" Muckracker A socially minded band of writers who decried and attacked perceived immoral conduct in business and government Johan Strindberg Swedish novelist, playwright, essayis...

ODYSSEY PART 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, GRADED A+/ VERIFIED. oral tradition - -stories told orally, not written, and past down epic - -long narrative poem, usually about a hero myth - -mans attempt to understand the world and answer questions protagonist - -good (hero) main character antagonist - -villian of story - against protagonist theme - -insight or message in a work of literature Hesiod - -wrote the origin of all the gods Calliope - -goddess of epic poetry - one of Zeus' ni...

Praxis 5038 English Lang. Literature, Novels/Authors Already Passed James Fenimore Cooper First novel 1820 - famous series - Leatherstocking Tales (5) incl. The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), The Deerslayer (1841). First book was Precaution, which attempted to Satirize Jane Austen's novels. Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper - 1826 Main character- Natty Bumppo -nickname: Hawkeye - brave and resourceful woodsman armed with un...

Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)() - Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450. Early Dark Age(1250-900): - -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline. -Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over. -1250 marks Trojan war. Late Dark Age (900-750): - -Population growth and new trade. -800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy) Archaic (750-480) - -Rise of ...

What is the term for a highly sexualized, womanizing male character found in a Restoration comedy? - Rake What writer is credited with putting together the standard English dictionary until Oxford came along in the late 19th century? - Samuel Johnson Who was England's first official poet laureate? - John Donne An artistic movement that swept through Europe starting in the 14th century. - Renaissance Two rhyming lines placed directly together sharing the same meter. - couplet What...

PRAXIS TWO MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA 5047 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% 2023 Literary Periods Old English, Middle English, British Romantic, British Victorian, British Neoclassical, American Renaissance,Harlem Renaissance, Modern, Postmodern,American Naturalist,Contemporary CCSS main genres Stories,Drama,Poetry,Literary Nonfiction Subgenre Biography, Drama,Epic poem, Essay,Lyric,Novel,Prose poem, Comedy, Gothic,Pastoral, Coming of age,Romance,Satire,Tragedy Old English 450-1066 (Angle...

CSET English Subtest 1 Latest Update Graded A Villanelle An intricate French poetic form with 19 lines divided into 5 3-lined stanzas (called tercets), and one final quatrain. It has only 2 rhyming sounds, so it is difficult to write one in English. Petrarchan sonnet Italian sonnet with the rhyme scheme of abba abba. It divides into 2 parts, the first part being an octet and the second being a sestet. Elizabethan or Shakespearean Sonnet Written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quat...

Richard Jenkyns - Characterisation of Aeneas correct answers "It is the constant awareness of duty and responsibility that makes Aeneas a new kind of epic hero" Deryck Williams - Book 6 correct answers "The future destiny of Rome he is strengthened and resolved to be successful in his mission" Helga Nehrkorn - Book 6 correct answers "Aeneas descends into the underworld, learning to understand the historic impact of his task" Kristine Perkell - Book 2 and Augustan values correct an...