FTCE Middle Grades English 5-9 LATEST
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES|ALREADY GRADED A+
Allegory - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A type of narrative that uses a story to symbolize another meaning
(Biblical stories)
Alliteration - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A reference to an event literary work or person. *I can not do that
because I'm not superman.
Foreshadowing - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Uses hints in a narrative to let the audience anticipate future
events in the plot.
Hyperbole - Correct 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.
Metaphor - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Compares two things by stating one is the other.*The eyes are the
windows of the soul.
Onomotopeia - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Words that imitate the sound they describe. *Plunk, Whiz, Pop
Oxymoron - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A two word paradox. *Never miss, seriously funny.
Personification - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Another figure of speech which attributes "Human Qualities" to
an inanimate object or abstract entity. *The run down house appeared depressed.
Simile - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Compares one object to another. *He smokes like a chimney. *Pretty as
a picture. *Light as a feather.
Tone - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Refers to the "Attitude" expressed about the subject through the author.
,Figurative languange - Correct 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)
Imagery - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different
words, most often at the ends of lines.
Stanza - Correct Answer ✔✔ - grouping of lines, set off by a space, which usually has a set pattern of
meter and rhyme.
Rhythm - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Saying or dialogue much overworked in common language. They are
used in developing characters and sometimes in comical and farcical ways.
Anaphora - Correct 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 - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - the study of speech differences from one geographical area
to another.
Dialect mixture - Correct Answer ✔✔ - the presence in one form of speech with elements from
different neighboring dialects.
Dictation - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - any coherent succession of sentences, spoken or written. Thus a
novel, short story, essay, speech or interview.
Style - Correct 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.
, Email/Electronic communication - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Very common among people and business for
communication. Electronic documents will continue to grow.
Effective way of writing an email. - Correct Answer ✔✔ - 1. The subject should be meaningful and
concise. Clear to the reader.
2. Most important part of the message should appear on the first screen.
3. Summarize long messages in the fist paragraph.
4. Write concisely in short, relevant paragraphs.
5. Use a mixture of capital and lower case letter for ease of reading.
6. Include the text of the attachment in the body of the E-mail if possible.
7. Proofread after using spell check and grammar check.
Plot - Correct Answer ✔✔ - the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and
presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Elements of Literature - Correct Answer ✔✔ - 1. Exposition
2. Foreshadowing
3. Inciting Force/triggers
4. Conflict
5. Rising Action
6. Crisis
7. Climax
8. Falling action
9. Resolution
Exposition - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The introductory material which give the setting, creates the tone,
presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.
Inciting Force/triggers - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The event of character that triggers the conflict.
Conflict - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The essence of fiction. It creates plot. We usually encounter them as
(Man versus...Man, Nature, Society or Self.)
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES|ALREADY GRADED A+
Allegory - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A type of narrative that uses a story to symbolize another meaning
(Biblical stories)
Alliteration - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A reference to an event literary work or person. *I can not do that
because I'm not superman.
Foreshadowing - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Uses hints in a narrative to let the audience anticipate future
events in the plot.
Hyperbole - Correct 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.
Metaphor - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Compares two things by stating one is the other.*The eyes are the
windows of the soul.
Onomotopeia - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Words that imitate the sound they describe. *Plunk, Whiz, Pop
Oxymoron - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A two word paradox. *Never miss, seriously funny.
Personification - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Another figure of speech which attributes "Human Qualities" to
an inanimate object or abstract entity. *The run down house appeared depressed.
Simile - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Compares one object to another. *He smokes like a chimney. *Pretty as
a picture. *Light as a feather.
Tone - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Refers to the "Attitude" expressed about the subject through the author.
,Figurative languange - Correct 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)
Imagery - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different
words, most often at the ends of lines.
Stanza - Correct Answer ✔✔ - grouping of lines, set off by a space, which usually has a set pattern of
meter and rhyme.
Rhythm - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Saying or dialogue much overworked in common language. They are
used in developing characters and sometimes in comical and farcical ways.
Anaphora - Correct 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 - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - the study of speech differences from one geographical area
to another.
Dialect mixture - Correct Answer ✔✔ - the presence in one form of speech with elements from
different neighboring dialects.
Dictation - Correct 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 - Correct Answer ✔✔ - any coherent succession of sentences, spoken or written. Thus a
novel, short story, essay, speech or interview.
Style - Correct 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.
, Email/Electronic communication - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Very common among people and business for
communication. Electronic documents will continue to grow.
Effective way of writing an email. - Correct Answer ✔✔ - 1. The subject should be meaningful and
concise. Clear to the reader.
2. Most important part of the message should appear on the first screen.
3. Summarize long messages in the fist paragraph.
4. Write concisely in short, relevant paragraphs.
5. Use a mixture of capital and lower case letter for ease of reading.
6. Include the text of the attachment in the body of the E-mail if possible.
7. Proofread after using spell check and grammar check.
Plot - Correct Answer ✔✔ - the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and
presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Elements of Literature - Correct Answer ✔✔ - 1. Exposition
2. Foreshadowing
3. Inciting Force/triggers
4. Conflict
5. Rising Action
6. Crisis
7. Climax
8. Falling action
9. Resolution
Exposition - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The introductory material which give the setting, creates the tone,
presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.
Inciting Force/triggers - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The event of character that triggers the conflict.
Conflict - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The essence of fiction. It creates plot. We usually encounter them as
(Man versus...Man, Nature, Society or Self.)
