Enjambment - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This poem, set in the rural South, was first published during the Harlem Renaissance. (B) A recollection of a remarkable occurrence (C) A lament for a vanished way of life (D) An analysis of a momentous decision November Cotton Flower (E) An invitation to celebrate a hard-fought victory Boll-weevil’s* coming, and the winter’s cold, Made cotton-stalks look rusty, seasons old, 2. The primary purpose of lines 1-8 is to 10 Line 5 And cotton, scarce as any southern snow, Was vanishin...

Praxis 5039 Questions and Answers Already Passed Paradox a contradiction or dilemma Myth A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. Oxymoron A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. Essay A piece of prose writing, usually short, that deals with a subject in a limited way and expresses a particular point of view. Malapropism the unintentional misuse...

National Boards Study Set - AYA ELA questions and answers 2023eschatological pertaining to things at the end of time conceit a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor aurally (adv) with regard to sound or the ear trochee A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable spondee a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables dolorous sorrowful schema organized knowledge structure or mental model that ...

Storm on The Island - Quotes - correct answer "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear" "We just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo." (Personification, metaphor, sibilance) "Like a tame cat turned savage" (simile) "Exploding comfortably" (oxymoron) "When it blows full blast:" (enjambment then caesura) "We are prepared" (confident tone and inclusive pronoun) "Leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale so that you can l...

Praxis 5038 (2023/2024) Rated A+ allegory a story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Allegories usually have a strong lesson or moral. alliteration a repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. allusion a reference toa familiar person, place, or event - for example - Don Juan, brave new world, Machiavellian, utopia analogy a comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but a...

National Boards Study Set - AYA ELA Questions and Answers 100% Pass eschatological - Answer- pertaining to things at the end of time conceit - Answer- a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor aurally - Answer- (adv) with regard to sound or the ear trochee - Answer- A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable spondee - Answer- a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables dolorous - Answer- sorrowful schema - Answer- organized knowl...

Paradox - a contradiction or dilemma Myth - A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. Oxymoron - A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. Essay - A piece of prose writing, usually short, that deals with a subject in a limited way and expresses a particular point of view. Malapropism - the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds sim...

PRAXIS 5038 Questions and Answers Graded A+ Soliloquy when a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud without regard to the audience Aside spoken directly to the audience by one character for the purpose of giving them knowledge that is not shared with the other character Jane Austen Romantic Fiction, Realism and Social Commentary Ray Bradbury- When, Author? o American 20th century o Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror and Mystery Fiction Stephen Crane o American, Realist, Naturalism, Impress...

ELA 10 Question and answers correctly solved 2024/2025alliteration - correct answer the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. allusion - correct answer an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. apostrophe - correct answer a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing aside - correct answer a remar...

alliteration correct answers 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 correct answers a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work.a brief reference to a person, event, place, or...