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NYSTCE English Language Arts (003) Test 100% Correct Epic poems a long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero, adventures Epistolary Poetry written and read as letters Ballads songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure, romance, death and religion Elegies poems of loss that express both praise for the dead and an element of consolation Odes Poems that express strong emotions about life, evolved from songs Epigrams/ limericks Known for humor and wit Sonnet a poem of f...

Praxis : English Language Arts : Content Knowledge (5038) correctly answered 2023Apostrophe - correct answer Addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. Antithesis - correct answer Using opposite phrases in close conjunction. Anastrophe - correct answer Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme. Anticlimax - correct answer A drop from a dignified or important idea...usually ridiculous or humorous. Archetype - correct answer Universal ...

Rhetoric correct answers The art of speaking or writing effectively with persuasion. Aristotle's Triangle correct answers ->Speaker -> Audience -> Subject -> -if any of these have a weakness everything falls apart Ethos * correct answers Appeal to character to show that they are trustworthy and credible Logos * correct answers Offers clear, rational ideas... logical! Pathos * correct answers Offers an emotional appeal with emphasis on personal anecdotes or figurative la...

CLEP - Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 100% Correct alliteration Repetition of a constanant sound - do or die; safe and sound. A common use for alliteration is emphasis. It occurs in everyday speech in such prhases as "tittle-tattle," "bag and baggage," "bed and board," "primrose path," and "through thick and thin" and in sayings like "look before you leap." allusion a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work.a brief reference to a ...

allegory The rhetorical strategy of extending a metaphor through an entire narrative so that objects, persons, and actions in the text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text. "There is an obvious allegory in Avatar, the Navi stand for Native Americans." alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound, as in "a peck of pickled peppers." 00:12 01:17 allusion A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional. ...

allegory -->The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. allusion -->passing or casual reference referring to something anagnorisis -->recognition or discovery on the part of the hero; change from ignorance to knowledge anagram -->a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase analogy -->a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison ma...

Helen - Helen of Troy - blamed for the Trojan War, wife of Menelaus; mentioned in the Illiad; defended by Gorgias Herodotus - Wrote "The Histories" - traveled the known world, wrote on politics and culture Heraclitus - Wrote "Fragments", ascending/descending = the same, simultaneous contradictions; truth cannot be grasped; philosopher of "becoming" ("we are and we are not"); "You cannot step into the same river twice" "All entities move, nothing remains still...you cannot step tw...

English Literature CLEP Latest 2023 Graded A heroic couple a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines, first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit, esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: "In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend") terza rima -(tert′sə rē′mə) a verse form of Italian origin, made up of tercets, the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba,...

Declarative A sentence that makes a statement. Imperative A sentence that gives a command. 00:11 01:17 Interrogative A sentence that asks a question Exclamatory A sentence that provides emphasis or expresses strong emotion. Simple Sentence Contains one independent clause Compound Sentence Contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon. Complex Sentence Contains and independent clause and one or ...

FTCE English 6-12 Exam Questions With Correct Answers. ANASTROPHE - answeris a form of a literary device wherein the order of the noun and the adjective in the sentence is exchanged. In standard parlance and writing, adjective comes before the noun. But when one is employing an anastrophe the noun is followed by the adjective. This reversed order creates a dramatic impact and lends weight to he description offered by the adjective. ANTHROPOMORPHISM - answercan be understood to be the act ...