FTCE English 6-12 Complete Questions and
Answers
1. Alex Haley: Post-Civil War to the Present; Roots
2. Alice Childress: Post-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st afro
american
playwright on broadway
3. Alice Walker: Feminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple
4. 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
5. Alliteration: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of
verse
6. alliteration: Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard. Is an example of?
7. allusion: short reference to a person ,event or another work of literature--clarifies a point
8. ambiguity: a vague or uncertain statemnt; it could have more than one meaning or intent
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,9. 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
10. Andrew Marvell: Metaphysical Poetry, poet and satirist,
11. anecdote: an interesting event told to draw the reader into the reading
12. Antecedent: a preceding occurrence or cause or event
13. 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
14. 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."
15. aphorism: Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Is an example of?
16. Apostrophe: O grave, where is thy victory? Is an example of?
17. Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman
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, is addressed as
if it were alive and present and was able to reply; address to an absent or imaginary person
18. 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
19. Bathos: insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity
20. Blank Verse: unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter); Poetry written in iambic
pentameter but
unrhymed. Shakespeare and Milton.
21. Caesura: a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
22. catharsis: a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from
tension
23. character: person in a literary work
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Answers
1. Alex Haley: Post-Civil War to the Present; Roots
2. Alice Childress: Post-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st afro
american
playwright on broadway
3. Alice Walker: Feminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple
4. 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
5. Alliteration: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of
verse
6. alliteration: Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard. Is an example of?
7. allusion: short reference to a person ,event or another work of literature--clarifies a point
8. ambiguity: a vague or uncertain statemnt; it could have more than one meaning or intent
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,9. 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
10. Andrew Marvell: Metaphysical Poetry, poet and satirist,
11. anecdote: an interesting event told to draw the reader into the reading
12. Antecedent: a preceding occurrence or cause or event
13. 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
14. 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."
15. aphorism: Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Is an example of?
16. Apostrophe: O grave, where is thy victory? Is an example of?
17. Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman
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, is addressed as
if it were alive and present and was able to reply; address to an absent or imaginary person
18. 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
19. Bathos: insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity
20. Blank Verse: unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter); Poetry written in iambic
pentameter but
unrhymed. Shakespeare and Milton.
21. Caesura: a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
22. catharsis: a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from
tension
23. character: person in a literary work
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