NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST – EXAM
STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 COMPLETE
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a group of sentences about one main idea - ANSWER paragraph
provide more information and details about the topic and the main idea - ANSWER
supporting sentences
moves from specific to general and is usually based on observations - ANSWER inductive
reasoning
begins with a generalization and supports that generalization with the specifics - ANSWER
deductive reasoning
author's attitude as is reflected in the statement or passage - ANSWER tone
those structures that represent generic concepts stored in our memory - ANSWER schemata
suggests that people learn socially or through some sort of stimulation or repetition - ANSWER
behavioral learning theory
,suggests that learning takes place in the mind and that the mind processes ideas through brain
mapping and connections with other material and experiences - ANSWER cognitive learning
theory
the rhythmic pattern of a single verse - ANSWER verse form
occurs when the final consonant sounds are the same, but the vowels are different. Occurs
frequently in Irish, Welsh, and Icelandic verse. Examples include: green and gone, that and hit,
ill and shell - ANSWER slant rhyme
if alliteration occurs at the beginning of a word and rhyme at the end, --- takes the middle
territory. --- occurs when the vowel sound within a word matches the same sound in a nearby
word, but the surrounding consonant sounds are different - ANSWER assonance
the recurrence of stresses at equal intervals - ANSWER rhythm
the pattern of the rhythm - ANSWER meter
a line of one foot - ANSWER monometer
definite pause within a line of music - ANSWER caesura
a group of a certain number of lines with a rhyme scheme or a particular rhyme - ANSWER
stanza
unrhymed iambic pentameter - ANSWER blank verse
,two-line stanza, usually rhymed - ANSWER couplet
two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter, the first ending in a light pause, the second more
heavily end-stopped - ANSWER heroic couplet
a three-line stanza, which, if rhymed usually keeps to one rhyme sound - ANSWER tercet
the middle line of the tercet rhymes with the first and third lines of the next tercet - ANSWER
terza rima
four-line stanza, the most popular in English - ANSWER the quatrain
four iambic feet in lines one and three, three in lines two and four. Rhyming is abcb - ANSWER
the ballad stanza
a line or lines repeated in a ballad as a chorus - ANSWER the refrain
follows a stanza in a ballad.
five line stanzas occur, but not frequently
six-line stanzas, more frequent than 5 line - ANSWER terminal refrain
six six-line stanzas and a tercet. Repeats in each stanza the same six end-words in a different
order - ANSWER sestina
seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter w/ rhyme ababbcc - ANSWER rime royal
, eight-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhyming abababcc - ANSWER ottava rima
nine lines, rhyming ababbcbcc for eight lines then concludes with an Alexandrine - ANSWER
spenserian stanza
a line of iambic hexameter - ANSWER the alexandrine
no pattern of rhyme, stanza, or meter - ANSWER free verse
a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter - ANSWER sonnet
sometimes called a Shakespearean sonnet. Rhymes cohere in four clusters: abab cdcd efef gg -
ANSWER english sonnet
first eight lines(the octave), abbabba; then the sestet, the last 6 lines add new rhyme sounds in
almost any variation does not end in a couplet - ANSWER Italian sonnet (or Petrarchan)
the knights tale is a romantic poem from the longer - ANSWER Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
paradise lost is an -- poem in ---- - ANSWER epic, blank verse
the rime of the ancient mariner is an - ANSWER ballad
the faerie queene is an - ANSWER epic poem
STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
a group of sentences about one main idea - ANSWER paragraph
provide more information and details about the topic and the main idea - ANSWER
supporting sentences
moves from specific to general and is usually based on observations - ANSWER inductive
reasoning
begins with a generalization and supports that generalization with the specifics - ANSWER
deductive reasoning
author's attitude as is reflected in the statement or passage - ANSWER tone
those structures that represent generic concepts stored in our memory - ANSWER schemata
suggests that people learn socially or through some sort of stimulation or repetition - ANSWER
behavioral learning theory
,suggests that learning takes place in the mind and that the mind processes ideas through brain
mapping and connections with other material and experiences - ANSWER cognitive learning
theory
the rhythmic pattern of a single verse - ANSWER verse form
occurs when the final consonant sounds are the same, but the vowels are different. Occurs
frequently in Irish, Welsh, and Icelandic verse. Examples include: green and gone, that and hit,
ill and shell - ANSWER slant rhyme
if alliteration occurs at the beginning of a word and rhyme at the end, --- takes the middle
territory. --- occurs when the vowel sound within a word matches the same sound in a nearby
word, but the surrounding consonant sounds are different - ANSWER assonance
the recurrence of stresses at equal intervals - ANSWER rhythm
the pattern of the rhythm - ANSWER meter
a line of one foot - ANSWER monometer
definite pause within a line of music - ANSWER caesura
a group of a certain number of lines with a rhyme scheme or a particular rhyme - ANSWER
stanza
unrhymed iambic pentameter - ANSWER blank verse
,two-line stanza, usually rhymed - ANSWER couplet
two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter, the first ending in a light pause, the second more
heavily end-stopped - ANSWER heroic couplet
a three-line stanza, which, if rhymed usually keeps to one rhyme sound - ANSWER tercet
the middle line of the tercet rhymes with the first and third lines of the next tercet - ANSWER
terza rima
four-line stanza, the most popular in English - ANSWER the quatrain
four iambic feet in lines one and three, three in lines two and four. Rhyming is abcb - ANSWER
the ballad stanza
a line or lines repeated in a ballad as a chorus - ANSWER the refrain
follows a stanza in a ballad.
five line stanzas occur, but not frequently
six-line stanzas, more frequent than 5 line - ANSWER terminal refrain
six six-line stanzas and a tercet. Repeats in each stanza the same six end-words in a different
order - ANSWER sestina
seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter w/ rhyme ababbcc - ANSWER rime royal
, eight-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhyming abababcc - ANSWER ottava rima
nine lines, rhyming ababbcbcc for eight lines then concludes with an Alexandrine - ANSWER
spenserian stanza
a line of iambic hexameter - ANSWER the alexandrine
no pattern of rhyme, stanza, or meter - ANSWER free verse
a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter - ANSWER sonnet
sometimes called a Shakespearean sonnet. Rhymes cohere in four clusters: abab cdcd efef gg -
ANSWER english sonnet
first eight lines(the octave), abbabba; then the sestet, the last 6 lines add new rhyme sounds in
almost any variation does not end in a couplet - ANSWER Italian sonnet (or Petrarchan)
the knights tale is a romantic poem from the longer - ANSWER Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
paradise lost is an -- poem in ---- - ANSWER epic, blank verse
the rime of the ancient mariner is an - ANSWER ballad
the faerie queene is an - ANSWER epic poem
