FTCE Middle Grades English 5-9
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Allegory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A type of narrative that uses a story to symbolize
another meaning (Biblical stories)
Alliteration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A device that "repeats" stressed sounds in a
sequence of words closely connected to one another. *Luscious lemons. It is based
on the sounds of letters, rather than the spelling of words.
Allusion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A reference to an event literary work or person. *I can
not do that because I'm not superman.
Foreshadowing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Uses hints in a narrative to let the audience
anticipate future events in the plot.
Hyperbole - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An exaggeration/a figure of speech that uses extreme
exaggeration for dramatic effect. *I have done this a thousand times. *Love story,
comic stories.
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,Metaphor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Compares two things by stating one is the other.*The
eyes are the windows of the soul.
Onomotopeia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Words that imitate the sound they describe.
*Plunk, Whiz, Pop
Oxymoron - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A two word paradox. *Never miss, seriously funny.
Personification - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Another figure of speech which attributes
"Human Qualities" to an inanimate object or abstract entity. *The run down house
appeared depressed.
Simile - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Compares one object to another. *He smokes like a
chimney. *Pretty as a picture. *Light as a feather.
Tone - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the "Attitude" expressed about the subject
through the author.
Figurative languange - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A form of language use in which the
writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words.
(Two figures of speech that are particularly important for poetry are simile and
metaphor)
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,Imagery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Is the concrete representation of a sense impression,
feeling or idea that triggers our imaginative ere-enactment of sensory experience.
*Images may be visual (something seen) Aural (something heard), tactile (felt),
olfactory (smell), or gustatory (something tasted.) * Language that appeals to the
senses.
Rhyme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The repetition of identical or similar concluding
syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines.
Stanza - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔grouping of lines, set off by a space, which usually has a
set pattern of meter and rhyme.
Rhythm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Is the repetition of identical or similar concluding
syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. Rhyme is
predominately a function of sound rather than spelling; thus words that end with
they same vowel sound. *day, prey, bouquet, weigh. (Poets rely heavily on rhythm
to express meaning and convey feeling.)
Cliches - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Saying or dialogue much overworked in common
language. They are used in developing characters and sometimes in comical and
farcical ways.
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, Anaphora - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔refers to a figure of speech in which a word or words
are repeated at the beginning of successive lines of verse in rhetoric.
Climax - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a state of tension in a literary work reaches
its peak, usually with a resolution of some kind. (increasing level of tension,
usually between the protagonist and antagonist.)
Dialect geography - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the study of speech differences from one
geographical area to another.
Dialect mixture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the presence in one form of speech with
elements from different neighboring dialects.
Dictation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the choice of language in a literary work. May be
formal, colloquial, and slang. Used to set a tone for the work meant to induce a
mood in the audience.
Discourse - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔any coherent succession of sentences, spoken or
written. Thus a novel, short story, essay, speech or interview.
Style - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a particular manner of using language to narrate a story,
develop a dramatic mood, or evoke a mood. Can also refer to a period of literary
history or to an individual writer.
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2025/2026 Exam Questions Marking
Scheme New Update | A+ Rated
Allegory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A type of narrative that uses a story to symbolize
another meaning (Biblical stories)
Alliteration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A device that "repeats" stressed sounds in a
sequence of words closely connected to one another. *Luscious lemons. It is based
on the sounds of letters, rather than the spelling of words.
Allusion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A reference to an event literary work or person. *I can
not do that because I'm not superman.
Foreshadowing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Uses hints in a narrative to let the audience
anticipate future events in the plot.
Hyperbole - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An exaggeration/a figure of speech that uses extreme
exaggeration for dramatic effect. *I have done this a thousand times. *Love story,
comic stories.
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,Metaphor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Compares two things by stating one is the other.*The
eyes are the windows of the soul.
Onomotopeia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Words that imitate the sound they describe.
*Plunk, Whiz, Pop
Oxymoron - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A two word paradox. *Never miss, seriously funny.
Personification - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Another figure of speech which attributes
"Human Qualities" to an inanimate object or abstract entity. *The run down house
appeared depressed.
Simile - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Compares one object to another. *He smokes like a
chimney. *Pretty as a picture. *Light as a feather.
Tone - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the "Attitude" expressed about the subject
through the author.
Figurative languange - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A form of language use in which the
writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words.
(Two figures of speech that are particularly important for poetry are simile and
metaphor)
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,Imagery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Is the concrete representation of a sense impression,
feeling or idea that triggers our imaginative ere-enactment of sensory experience.
*Images may be visual (something seen) Aural (something heard), tactile (felt),
olfactory (smell), or gustatory (something tasted.) * Language that appeals to the
senses.
Rhyme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The repetition of identical or similar concluding
syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines.
Stanza - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔grouping of lines, set off by a space, which usually has a
set pattern of meter and rhyme.
Rhythm - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Is the repetition of identical or similar concluding
syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. Rhyme is
predominately a function of sound rather than spelling; thus words that end with
they same vowel sound. *day, prey, bouquet, weigh. (Poets rely heavily on rhythm
to express meaning and convey feeling.)
Cliches - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Saying or dialogue much overworked in common
language. They are used in developing characters and sometimes in comical and
farcical ways.
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, Anaphora - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔refers to a figure of speech in which a word or words
are repeated at the beginning of successive lines of verse in rhetoric.
Climax - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when a state of tension in a literary work reaches
its peak, usually with a resolution of some kind. (increasing level of tension,
usually between the protagonist and antagonist.)
Dialect geography - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the study of speech differences from one
geographical area to another.
Dialect mixture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the presence in one form of speech with
elements from different neighboring dialects.
Dictation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the choice of language in a literary work. May be
formal, colloquial, and slang. Used to set a tone for the work meant to induce a
mood in the audience.
Discourse - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔any coherent succession of sentences, spoken or
written. Thus a novel, short story, essay, speech or interview.
Style - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a particular manner of using language to narrate a story,
develop a dramatic mood, or evoke a mood. Can also refer to a period of literary
history or to an individual writer.
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