Blank verse - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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...

Praxis II Elementary Education 5001 (2023/2024) Rated A Assonance Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds Meter A recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates a rhythm when spoken Iambic meter An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable Blank verse unrhymed verse that consists of lines of iambic pentameter Free verse Lacks regular patterns of poetic feet, but has more controlled rhythm than prose in terms of pace and pauses. Phonological awareness A...

What is the central theme of Act I of Macbeth? - Answer- Betrayal For which of the following reasons did Shakespeare probably choose to write Macbeth in blank verse? - Answer- To create an effect of natural speech. Based upon the information in Act I, what appears to be Macbeth's character flaw? - Answer- A desire for power. Which of the following characterizes the line "This night's great business into my dispatch" as blank verse? - Answer- It has ten syllables with the stress fall...

MTTC Reading Test with Revised Solutions What are eight elements that influence a work of prose fiction - Answer-Speech and dialogue Thoughts and mental processes Dramatic Involvement Action Duration Setting and description Themes Symbolism What three types of Plays are there? - Answer-Chronicle Plays Mystery Plays Heroic Dramas Historical dramas based on English History written primarily during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. - Answer-Chronicle Plays Dramatic works base...

English Literature CLEPheroic couple - correct answer 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) - correct answer 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 ...

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...

FTCE English 6-12 Complete Exam Questions And Answers 100% Verified Alex Haley - answerPost-Civil War to the Present; Roots Alice Childress - answerPost-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st afro american playwright on broadway Alice Walker - answerFeminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple allegory - answera story with a symbolic meaning used to teach a moral story; an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject ...

FTCE English 6-12 Complete Exam Questions And Answers 100% Verified Alex Haley - answerPost-Civil War to the Present; Roots Alice Childress - answerPost-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st afro american playwright on broadway Alice Walker - answerFeminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple allegory - answera story with a symbolic meaning used to teach a moral story; an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject ...

COMPLETE DETAILED CONTENT Poems Ozymandias - Form - correct answer - Sonnet, with a volta at line 9 - Doesn't follow a regular sonnet rhyme scheme. This symbolises destruction of human power and control - Iambic pentameter - control, although often disrupted - like time chipping away at the statue - Second hand account, distancing reader from Ozymandias and proving his irrelevance Ozymandias - Structure - correct answer - Focuses of different parts of the statue in turn, building up an...

Correct Answer-meter What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and a definite meter? Correct Answer-blank verse How are blank verse and free verse different? Correct Answer-blank verse has a defined meter, while free verse doesn't How many total syllables do you find in a line of iambic pentameter? Correct Answer-10 The pattern of five sets of unstressed/stressed iambs is called... Correct Answer-iambic pentameter Who made free verse popular among American poets? Correct...