FTCE English 6-12 Complete Compilation of the five sets of Questions and Answers

Alex Haley - Post-Civil War to the Present; Roots Alice Childress - Post-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st afro american playwright on broadway Alice Walker - Feminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple allegory - a story with a symbolic meaning used to teach a moral story; an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances Alliteration - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse alliteration - Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard. Is an example of? allusion - short reference to a person ,event or another work of literature--clarifies a point ambiguity - a vague or uncertain statemnt; it could have more than one meaning or intent Analogy - an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others, drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; a comparison between 2 things to show similarites between them Andrew Marvell - Metaphysical Poetry, poet and satirist, anecdote - an interesting event told to draw the reader into the reading Antecedent - a preceding occurrence or cause or event Antithesis - Balanced writing about conflicting ideas, usually expressed in sentence form. ex "expanding from the center," "shedding old habits," and "searching never finding."; the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance aphorism - a short, catchy saying which expresses an imprtant truth or lesson, ex. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." aphorism - Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Is an example of? Apostrophe - O grave, where is thy victory? Is an example of? Apostrophe - a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply; address to an absent or imaginary person Assonance - Occurs when the vowel sound within a word matches the same sound in a nearby word, but the surrounding consonant sounds are the same. ex "tune" and "food"; repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line of poetry Bathos - insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity Blank Verse - unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter); Poetry written in iambic pentameter but unrhymed. Shakespeare and Milton. Caesura - a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line catharsis - a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension character - person in a literary work characterization - ways an author develop the personalities of the characters chorus - in a drama, one or more characters who comment on actions Clause - (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence Cliche - She's as busy as a bee. Is an example of? Climax - arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness colloquial (language) - characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; everyday language we use in conversation--Mark Twain Conceit - a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects; ex John Donne metephysical poetry, he compares a flea bite to the act of love. confessional poetry - type of modern poetry in which poets speak with openness and frankness about their lives conflict - struggle that the protagonist of a story or drama undergoes Connotation - the implied or associative meaning of a word; The ripple effect surrounding the implications and associations of a given word. Consonance - the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words convene - come together; assemble; call to meet; Ex. convene the council Countee Cullen - Harlem Renaissance, wrote "Any Human to Another," "Color," and "The Ballad of the Brown Girl;" American Romantic poet. Couplet - Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme Denotation - the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color denouement - the resolution of a story as confict is resolves and the know of the plot is untied