Praxis II 0041
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- Allegory
- story in which people represent an idea or a generalization about life, usually there is a moral
- Anapestic Meter
- short - short - long, usually a limerick
- Aphorism
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a wise saying, usually short
- Assonance
- words with similar sounds, "white stripes"
- Iambic
- unstressed, stressed
- Trochaic
- stressed, unstressed
- Dactylic Meter
- stressed, unstressed, unstressed
- Heroic Couplet
- pair of lines in poetic verse written in iambic pentameter
- Hubris
- flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero
- Mood
- the feeling the text gives the reader
- Tone
- the overall feeling created by an authors use of words
- Trancendentalism
- protested the puritan ethic and materialism. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Howthorne, H.D. Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Ballad
- short, to be sung or recited
- Haiku
- five-seven-five
- Petrarchan Sonnet
- 14 line poem; octave: proposition, sestet: solution
- Shakespearean Sonnet
- 14 line poem; three quatrains, couplets
- Declarative Sentence
- makes a statement about a noun
- Interrogative Sentence
- sentence asks a question
- Imperative Sentence
- issues a command
- Conditional sentence
- expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact
- infinitive phrase
- to (base form of verb); to run, to order
- participle
- verb ending in -ing or -ed; barking, painted
- gerund
- present participle that acts as a noun; gardening
- phrase
- group of words that operates as a single part of speech
- Clause
- group of related words that have both a subject and a predicate.
- Ode
- 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.
- Elegy
- a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
- Epic Poem
- long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
- Malapropism
- mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo †(instead of flamenco).
- Diction
- the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
- Stanza
- group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.