FTCE Middle Gr ades En glish 5-9 Questions w ith
100% Verified Correct Answ ers
1. Allegory: A type of narrative that uses a story to symbolize another meaning (Biblical stories)
2. Alliteration: 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.
3. Allusion: A reference to an event literary work or person. *I can not do that because I'm not superman.
4. Foreshadowing: Uses hints in a narrative to let the audience anticipate future events in the plot.
5. Hyperbole: An exaggeration/a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration for dramatic effect. *I have
done this a thousand times. *Love story, comic stories.
6. Metaphor: Compares two things by stating one is the other.*The eyes are the windows of the soul.
7. Onomotopeia: Words that imitate the sound they describe. *Plunk, Whiz, Pop
8. Oxymoron: A two word paradox. *Never miss, seriously funny.
9. Personification: Another figure of speech which attributes "Human Qualities" to an inanimate object
or abstract entity. *The run down house appeared depressed.
10. Simile: Compares one object to another. *He smokes like a chimney. *Pretty as a picture. *Light as a feather.
11. Tone: Refers to the "Attitude" expressed about the subject through the author.
12. Figurative languange: 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)
13. Imagery: 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.
14. Rhyme: The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in ditterent words, most often at the ends
of
lines.
15. Stanza: grouping of lines, set ott by a space, which usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.
16. Rhythm: Is the repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in ditterent 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.)
17. Cliches: Saying or dialogue much overworked in common language. They are used in developing
characters
and sometimes in comical and farcical ways.
18. Anaphora: refers to a figure of speech in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of
successive lines of verse in rhetoric.
19. Climax: 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.)
20. Dialect geography: the study of speech ditterences from one geographical area to another.
21. Dialect mixture: the presence in one form of speech with elements from ditterent neighboring
dialects.
22. Dictation: 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.
,23. Discourse: any coherent succession of sentences, spoken or written. Thus a novel, short story, essay,
speech or interview.
24. Style: 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.
25. Email/Electronic communication: Very common among people and business for
communication. Electronic documents will continue to grow.
26. Effective way of writing an email.: 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.
27. Plot: the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an
interrelated sequence.
28. Elements of Literature: 1. Exposition
2. Foreshadowing
3. Inciting Force/triggers
4. Conflict
5. Rising Action
6. Crisis
, 7. Climax
8. Falling action
9. Resolution
29. Exposition: The introductory material which give the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters,
and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.
30. Inciting Force/triggers: The event of character that triggers the conflict.
100% Verified Correct Answ ers
1. Allegory: A type of narrative that uses a story to symbolize another meaning (Biblical stories)
2. Alliteration: 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.
3. Allusion: A reference to an event literary work or person. *I can not do that because I'm not superman.
4. Foreshadowing: Uses hints in a narrative to let the audience anticipate future events in the plot.
5. Hyperbole: An exaggeration/a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration for dramatic effect. *I have
done this a thousand times. *Love story, comic stories.
6. Metaphor: Compares two things by stating one is the other.*The eyes are the windows of the soul.
7. Onomotopeia: Words that imitate the sound they describe. *Plunk, Whiz, Pop
8. Oxymoron: A two word paradox. *Never miss, seriously funny.
9. Personification: Another figure of speech which attributes "Human Qualities" to an inanimate object
or abstract entity. *The run down house appeared depressed.
10. Simile: Compares one object to another. *He smokes like a chimney. *Pretty as a picture. *Light as a feather.
11. Tone: Refers to the "Attitude" expressed about the subject through the author.
12. Figurative languange: 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)
13. Imagery: 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.
14. Rhyme: The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in ditterent words, most often at the ends
of
lines.
15. Stanza: grouping of lines, set ott by a space, which usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.
16. Rhythm: Is the repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in ditterent 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.)
17. Cliches: Saying or dialogue much overworked in common language. They are used in developing
characters
and sometimes in comical and farcical ways.
18. Anaphora: refers to a figure of speech in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of
successive lines of verse in rhetoric.
19. Climax: 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.)
20. Dialect geography: the study of speech ditterences from one geographical area to another.
21. Dialect mixture: the presence in one form of speech with elements from ditterent neighboring
dialects.
22. Dictation: 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.
,23. Discourse: any coherent succession of sentences, spoken or written. Thus a novel, short story, essay,
speech or interview.
24. Style: 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.
25. Email/Electronic communication: Very common among people and business for
communication. Electronic documents will continue to grow.
26. Effective way of writing an email.: 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.
27. Plot: the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an
interrelated sequence.
28. Elements of Literature: 1. Exposition
2. Foreshadowing
3. Inciting Force/triggers
4. Conflict
5. Rising Action
6. Crisis
, 7. Climax
8. Falling action
9. Resolution
29. Exposition: The introductory material which give the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters,
and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.
30. Inciting Force/triggers: The event of character that triggers the conflict.
