GACE English 020, 021 Exam with
Accurate Solutions
Allegory - ANSWER-A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the
Red Death-Poe.
Anaphora - ANSWER-Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive
lines.
Antithesis - ANSWER-Balanced writing about conflicting ideas.
Aphorism - ANSWER-A focused, succinct expression about life from a sagacious
viewpoint. Franklin, Pope, Bacon.
Apostrophe - ANSWER-Addressing an absent or dead person.
Archetype - ANSWER-Idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which
similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated.
Aristotle's Unities - ANSWER-Time, Place, Action
Ballad - ANSWER-In Media Res story sung or told in verse and usually accompanied by
music.
Bandwagon - ANSWER-Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something
because it is popular or everyone is doing it
Bathos - ANSWER-insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to
evoke pity
Bildungsroman - ANSWER-German term signifying "novel of formation" or "novel of
education" the coming of age novel
Blank verse - ANSWER-iambic pentameter, or five feet of iambs
Caesura - ANSWER-A pause in a line of poetry //
Catharsis - ANSWER-an emotional purging of a character
Malapropism - ANSWER-A verbal blunder in which one word is replaced by another
similar in sound but different in meaning.
, Meta-cognition (3 categories) - ANSWER-Awareness, planning, and self monitoring
Metonymy - ANSWER-Use of an object or idea to related to another object or idea to
represented the second. "Hit the books," "go study"
Myth - ANSWER-Stories that are more or less universally shared within a culture to
explain its history or traditions.
prologue - ANSWER-expounds the purpose in writing
octave - ANSWER-first eight lines of a sonnet
Octava rima - ANSWER-A form of poetry with eight lines, rhyming ABABAB CC
Children's Lit - ANSWER-Became popular second half of 18th century. The Visible
World of Pictures by John Amos Comenius.
Cinquain - ANSWER-A poem with one five-line stanza having no rhyme scheme.
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) named it and invented meter.
comedy - ANSWER-a form of dramatic literature that is meant to amuse and often ends
happily
Compound Sentence - ANSWER-Two clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction.
Complex Sentence - ANSWER-an independent clause plus one or more dependent
clauses.
Compound/Complex - ANSWER-one or more dependent clauses plus two or more
independent clauses.
Conceit - ANSWER-Comparison between seemingly disparate objects or concepts.
Donne's "flea bite to act of love" "The Flea"
Coordinating Conjunction - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, BOTH/AND join pairs
of ideas
Critical thinking tools - ANSWER-Summarization, question generation, and textual
marking
Deductive Reasoning - ANSWER-Reasons general to specific.
Accurate Solutions
Allegory - ANSWER-A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the
Red Death-Poe.
Anaphora - ANSWER-Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive
lines.
Antithesis - ANSWER-Balanced writing about conflicting ideas.
Aphorism - ANSWER-A focused, succinct expression about life from a sagacious
viewpoint. Franklin, Pope, Bacon.
Apostrophe - ANSWER-Addressing an absent or dead person.
Archetype - ANSWER-Idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which
similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated.
Aristotle's Unities - ANSWER-Time, Place, Action
Ballad - ANSWER-In Media Res story sung or told in verse and usually accompanied by
music.
Bandwagon - ANSWER-Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something
because it is popular or everyone is doing it
Bathos - ANSWER-insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to
evoke pity
Bildungsroman - ANSWER-German term signifying "novel of formation" or "novel of
education" the coming of age novel
Blank verse - ANSWER-iambic pentameter, or five feet of iambs
Caesura - ANSWER-A pause in a line of poetry //
Catharsis - ANSWER-an emotional purging of a character
Malapropism - ANSWER-A verbal blunder in which one word is replaced by another
similar in sound but different in meaning.
, Meta-cognition (3 categories) - ANSWER-Awareness, planning, and self monitoring
Metonymy - ANSWER-Use of an object or idea to related to another object or idea to
represented the second. "Hit the books," "go study"
Myth - ANSWER-Stories that are more or less universally shared within a culture to
explain its history or traditions.
prologue - ANSWER-expounds the purpose in writing
octave - ANSWER-first eight lines of a sonnet
Octava rima - ANSWER-A form of poetry with eight lines, rhyming ABABAB CC
Children's Lit - ANSWER-Became popular second half of 18th century. The Visible
World of Pictures by John Amos Comenius.
Cinquain - ANSWER-A poem with one five-line stanza having no rhyme scheme.
Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) named it and invented meter.
comedy - ANSWER-a form of dramatic literature that is meant to amuse and often ends
happily
Compound Sentence - ANSWER-Two clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction.
Complex Sentence - ANSWER-an independent clause plus one or more dependent
clauses.
Compound/Complex - ANSWER-one or more dependent clauses plus two or more
independent clauses.
Conceit - ANSWER-Comparison between seemingly disparate objects or concepts.
Donne's "flea bite to act of love" "The Flea"
Coordinating Conjunction - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, BOTH/AND join pairs
of ideas
Critical thinking tools - ANSWER-Summarization, question generation, and textual
marking
Deductive Reasoning - ANSWER-Reasons general to specific.
