Limerick - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

stanza - Answer A group of lines in a poem lyric vs. narrative poem - Answer lyric -- does not tell a story/expresses the personal feelings, observations, or thoughts of a speaker narrative -- poem that tells story sonnet - Answer a 14 line poem containing 3 quatrains and 1 couplet quatrain - Answer A four line stanza cinquain - Answer a poem with 5 lines that contains a 2-4-6-8-2 syllable pattern haiku - Answer 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature ...

Praxis 5039 Study Guide with Complete Solutions limerick light of whimsical poetry. form of five anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba alliteration repetition of initial consonant sounds anapestic meter meter that is composed of feet that are short-short long or UU/ anaphora repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of several clauses. assonance repetition of the same sound in words close to one another. caesura A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natura...

GED Test 740 Questions with Verified Answers "WOW! Mom rides a kayak at noon." How are the underlined words alike? - CORRECT ANSWER They are palindromes Who was the author of Common Sense: Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson? - CORRECT ANSWER Thomas Paine What is NOT a real shark: hammerhead, shovelhead, or tigerhead? - CORRECT ANSWER tigerhead What is the force that slows down an object or stops its motion? - CORRECT ANSWER friction Which is greater than 90 degrees: an acute 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...

ASHES OF ROSES EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What street is Mr. Moscovitz's house on? MO - Answer-Chrystie Street Who goes back to Ireland with Ma? MO - Answer-Bridget What church did Uncle Patrick's family belong? MO - Answer-Lutherian Church What class does Ma and Bridget travel on when going back to Ireland? MO - Answer-Second-class Where does Gussela (Gussie) work? MO - Answer-Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Who taught Rose to sew? MO - Answer-Jacob Gerstien What were the Iris...

Ch. 1- to what genre does this story belong? - Memoir Ch.1- why did Frank believe that the misery of his own childhood was worse than the other miserable childhoods? - Because of poverty, alcoholic dad, defeated mom, bullying schoolmasters, pompous priest (sister Margaret is dead) Ch.1- explain the power River Shannon held over the Limerick inhabitants and the humorous role it indirectly played with the church. - Created cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes...

Program Committee Rabih Chattat (Alma Mater Studiorum– University of Bologna) Lorenzo Desideri (AIAS Bologna onlus) Ramon Daniels (Hogeschool Zuyd) Anna Kanto-Ronkanen (Kuopio University Hospital) Katerina Mavrou (European University Cyprus) Luc de Witte (University of Sheffield) Scientific Committee Renzo Andrich (Fondazione Don Gnocchi, IT) Dominique Archambault (Université Paris 8, FR) WimdeBacker (Thomas More-Modem, BEL) Maya Balakrishnan (Indian Institute of Tec...

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...

"WOW! Mom rides a kayak at noon." How are the underlined words alike? They are palindromes Who was the author of Common Sense: Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson? Thomas Paine What is NOT a real shark: hammerhead, shovelhead, or tigerhead? tigerhead What is the force that slows down an object or stops its motion? friction Which is greater than 90 degrees: an acute angle or an obtuse angle? obtuse angle What continent lies East of Europe? (page 1) Asia ...

PACE 1142 Exam Questions with All Correct Answers Theory in opposition to the Biblical account of creation - Answer-Evolution A direct means of creating distrust in the Bible in Victorian times - Answer-Textual criticism Literary genre borrowed from the ancient greeks and was designed to leave a vivid mental picture - Answer-Idyll Form of nonsense literature - Answer-Limerick Particularly important element of nonsense literature - Answer-Humor Refers to a poem of fourteen lines ...