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== Praxis II Middle Grades English Arts Notes to Studay By: ==

Inferring : Merging prior knowledge with text clues to draw conclusion

Irony : The contrast between expectation and reality. This incongruity had the effect of surprising the reader or viewer. Techniques of irony include hyperbole, understatement, and scarcasm.

Hyperbole : an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect.

Theme : a central idea or abstract concept that is made concerte through representation in person, action, and image. Theme is not simply a subject or an activity, vice for instance, but a propostion, such as "vice seems more intersting than virtue but turns out to be destructive." Sometimes the theme is directly stated in the work, and sometimes it is given indirectly. There may be more than one theme in a given work.

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