GACE English 020, 021 Exam with
Accurate Solutions
A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the Red Death-Poe. -
ANS-Allegory
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines. - ANS-Anaphora
Balanced writing about conflicting ideas. - ANS-Antithesis
A focused, succinct expression about life from a sagacious viewpoint. Franklin, Pope,
Bacon. - ANS-Aphorism
Addressing an absent or dead person. - ANS-Apostrophe
Idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are
derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. - ANS-Archetype
Time, Place, Action - ANS-Aristotle's Unities
In Media Res story sung or told in verse and usually accompanied by music. - ANS-
Ballad
Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it is popular or
everyone is doing it - ANS-Bandwagon
insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity - ANS-
Bathos
German term signifying "novel of formation" or "novel of education" the coming of age
novel - ANS-Bildungsroman
iambic pentameter, or five feet of iambs - ANS-Blank verse
A pause in a line of poetry // - ANS-Caesura
an emotional purging of a character - ANS-Catharsis
Became popular second half of 18th century. The Visible World of Pictures by John
Amos Comenius. - ANS-Children's Lit
, A poem with one five-line stanza having no rhyme scheme. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-
1914) named it and invented meter. - ANS-Cinquain
a form of dramatic literature that is meant to amuse and often ends happily - ANS-
comedy
Two clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction. - ANS-Compound Sentence
an independent clause plus one or more dependent clauses. - ANS-Complex Sentence
one or more dependent clauses plus two or more independent clauses. - ANS-
Compound/Complex
Comparison between seemingly disparate objects or concepts. Donne's "flea bite to act
of love" "The Flea" - ANS-Conceit
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. - ANS-Coordinating Conjunction
EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, BOTH/AND join pairs of ideas - ANS-Correlative
Conjunction
Summarization, question generation, and textual marking - ANS-Critical thinking tools
Reasons general to specific. - ANS-Deductive Reasoning
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). -
ANS-Dramatic Monologue
an English variation of the Petrarchan sonnet composed of three quatrains, each with
an independent rhyme scheme, and ended with a rhymed couplet - ANS-English sonnet
A letter that is not always intended for public distribution; yet, owing to the fame of its
sender or recipient becomes so. - ANS-Epistle
a long poem reflecting values of the culture - ANS-Epic
The kind of writing that is intended primarily to present information - ANS-Expository
Terse tale offering up a moral or exemplum. - ANS-Fable
a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit of a verse - ANS-Feet
Accurate Solutions
A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the Red Death-Poe. -
ANS-Allegory
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines. - ANS-Anaphora
Balanced writing about conflicting ideas. - ANS-Antithesis
A focused, succinct expression about life from a sagacious viewpoint. Franklin, Pope,
Bacon. - ANS-Aphorism
Addressing an absent or dead person. - ANS-Apostrophe
Idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are
derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. - ANS-Archetype
Time, Place, Action - ANS-Aristotle's Unities
In Media Res story sung or told in verse and usually accompanied by music. - ANS-
Ballad
Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it is popular or
everyone is doing it - ANS-Bandwagon
insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity - ANS-
Bathos
German term signifying "novel of formation" or "novel of education" the coming of age
novel - ANS-Bildungsroman
iambic pentameter, or five feet of iambs - ANS-Blank verse
A pause in a line of poetry // - ANS-Caesura
an emotional purging of a character - ANS-Catharsis
Became popular second half of 18th century. The Visible World of Pictures by John
Amos Comenius. - ANS-Children's Lit
, A poem with one five-line stanza having no rhyme scheme. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-
1914) named it and invented meter. - ANS-Cinquain
a form of dramatic literature that is meant to amuse and often ends happily - ANS-
comedy
Two clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction. - ANS-Compound Sentence
an independent clause plus one or more dependent clauses. - ANS-Complex Sentence
one or more dependent clauses plus two or more independent clauses. - ANS-
Compound/Complex
Comparison between seemingly disparate objects or concepts. Donne's "flea bite to act
of love" "The Flea" - ANS-Conceit
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. - ANS-Coordinating Conjunction
EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, BOTH/AND join pairs of ideas - ANS-Correlative
Conjunction
Summarization, question generation, and textual marking - ANS-Critical thinking tools
Reasons general to specific. - ANS-Deductive Reasoning
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). -
ANS-Dramatic Monologue
an English variation of the Petrarchan sonnet composed of three quatrains, each with
an independent rhyme scheme, and ended with a rhymed couplet - ANS-English sonnet
A letter that is not always intended for public distribution; yet, owing to the fame of its
sender or recipient becomes so. - ANS-Epistle
a long poem reflecting values of the culture - ANS-Epic
The kind of writing that is intended primarily to present information - ANS-Expository
Terse tale offering up a moral or exemplum. - ANS-Fable
a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit of a verse - ANS-Feet
