GACE English Terms And Defination
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Allegory -ANS-A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the Red Death-Poe.
Antithesis -ANS-Balanced writing about conflicting ideas.
Aphorism -ANS-A focused, succinct expression about life from a sagacious viewpoint. Franklin, Pope,
Bacon.
Apostrophe -ANS-Addressing an absent or dead person.
Archetype -ANS-Idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are
derived, copied, patterned, or emulated.
Aristotle's Unities -ANS-Time, Place, Action
Ballad -ANS-In Media Res story sung or told in verse and usually accompanied by music.
Bandwagon -ANS-Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it is popular or
everyone is doing it
Bathos -ANS-insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity
Bildungsroman -ANS-German term signifying "novel of formation" or "novel of education" the coming of
age novel
Blank verse -ANS-iambic pentameter, or five feet of iambs
Caesura -ANS-A pause in a line of poetry //
Catharsis -ANS-an emotional purging of a character
, Children's Lit -ANS-Became popular second half of 18th century. The Visible World of Pictures by John
Amos Comenius.
Cinquain -ANS-A poem with one five-line stanza having no rhyme scheme. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
named it and invented meter.
comedy -ANS-a form of dramatic literature that is meant to amuse and often ends happily
Complex Sentence -ANS-an independent clause plus one or more dependent clauses.
Compound Sentence -ANS-Two clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction.
Compound/Complex -ANS-one or more dependent clauses plus two or more independent clauses.
Conceit -ANS-Comparison between seemingly disparate objects or concepts. Donne's "flea bite to act of
love" "The Flea"
Coordinating Conjunction -ANS-FOR, AND, BUT, OR, YET, and SO -- used to join ideas that are similar;
remember to use a comma before a conjunction in a compound sentence: Ex: Craig gets in trouble, BUT
he usually gets out of it.
Correlative Conjunction -ANS-EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, BOTH/AND join pairs of ideas
Critical thinking tools -ANS-Summarization, question generation, and textual marking
Deductive Reasoning -ANS-Reasons general to specific.
Dramatic Monologue -ANS-Speech given by actor, with audience in mind, reveals key aspects of
character's psyche and sheds insight on the situation at hand. (Invented by Robert Browning).
2023-2024
Allegory -ANS-A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the Red Death-Poe.
Antithesis -ANS-Balanced writing about conflicting ideas.
Aphorism -ANS-A focused, succinct expression about life from a sagacious viewpoint. Franklin, Pope,
Bacon.
Apostrophe -ANS-Addressing an absent or dead person.
Archetype -ANS-Idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are
derived, copied, patterned, or emulated.
Aristotle's Unities -ANS-Time, Place, Action
Ballad -ANS-In Media Res story sung or told in verse and usually accompanied by music.
Bandwagon -ANS-Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it is popular or
everyone is doing it
Bathos -ANS-insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity
Bildungsroman -ANS-German term signifying "novel of formation" or "novel of education" the coming of
age novel
Blank verse -ANS-iambic pentameter, or five feet of iambs
Caesura -ANS-A pause in a line of poetry //
Catharsis -ANS-an emotional purging of a character
, Children's Lit -ANS-Became popular second half of 18th century. The Visible World of Pictures by John
Amos Comenius.
Cinquain -ANS-A poem with one five-line stanza having no rhyme scheme. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
named it and invented meter.
comedy -ANS-a form of dramatic literature that is meant to amuse and often ends happily
Complex Sentence -ANS-an independent clause plus one or more dependent clauses.
Compound Sentence -ANS-Two clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction.
Compound/Complex -ANS-one or more dependent clauses plus two or more independent clauses.
Conceit -ANS-Comparison between seemingly disparate objects or concepts. Donne's "flea bite to act of
love" "The Flea"
Coordinating Conjunction -ANS-FOR, AND, BUT, OR, YET, and SO -- used to join ideas that are similar;
remember to use a comma before a conjunction in a compound sentence: Ex: Craig gets in trouble, BUT
he usually gets out of it.
Correlative Conjunction -ANS-EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, BOTH/AND join pairs of ideas
Critical thinking tools -ANS-Summarization, question generation, and textual marking
Deductive Reasoning -ANS-Reasons general to specific.
Dramatic Monologue -ANS-Speech given by actor, with audience in mind, reveals key aspects of
character's psyche and sheds insight on the situation at hand. (Invented by Robert Browning).
