FTCE English 6-12 Exam Questions
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Wit - ANSWERS -intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights
Zora Neale Hurston - ANSWERS -Harlem Renaissance, Feminist/ Woman, wrote Their Eyes Were
Watching God; 20th century folklorist
Alex Haley - ANSWERS -Post-Civil War to the Present; Roots
Alice Childress - ANSWERS -Post-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a
Sandwich- 1st afro american playwright on broadway
Alice Walker - ANSWERS -Feminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple
allegory - ANSWERS -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
Alliteration - ANSWERS -use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in
a line of verse
alliteration - ANSWERS -Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard. Is an
example of?
allusion - ANSWERS -short reference to a person ,event or another work of literature--clarifies a
point
,ambiguity - ANSWERS -a vague or uncertain statemnt; it could have more than one meaning or
intent
Analogy - ANSWERS -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
Andrew Marvell - ANSWERS -Metaphysical Poetry, poet and satirist,
anecdote - ANSWERS -an interesting event told to draw the reader into the reading
Antecedent - ANSWERS -a preceding occurrence or cause or event
Antithesis - ANSWERS -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
aphorism - ANSWERS -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."
aphorism - ANSWERS -Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Is an example of?
Apostrophe - ANSWERS -O grave, where is thy victory? Is an example of?
Apostrophe - ANSWERS -a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something
nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply; address to an
absent or imaginary person
, Assonance - ANSWERS -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
Bathos - ANSWERS -insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke
pity
Blank Verse - ANSWERS -unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter); Poetry written in
iambic pentameter but unrhymed. Shakespeare and Milton.
Caesura - ANSWERS -a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
catharsis - ANSWERS -a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release
from tension
character - ANSWERS -person in a literary work
characterization - ANSWERS -ways an author develop the personalities of the characters
chorus - ANSWERS -in a drama, one or more characters who comment on actions
Clause - ANSWERS -(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not
constituting a complete sentence
Cliche - ANSWERS -She's as busy as a bee. Is an example of?
Climax - ANSWERS -arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
with Complete Solutions17
Wit - ANSWERS -intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights
Zora Neale Hurston - ANSWERS -Harlem Renaissance, Feminist/ Woman, wrote Their Eyes Were
Watching God; 20th century folklorist
Alex Haley - ANSWERS -Post-Civil War to the Present; Roots
Alice Childress - ANSWERS -Post-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a
Sandwich- 1st afro american playwright on broadway
Alice Walker - ANSWERS -Feminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple
allegory - ANSWERS -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
Alliteration - ANSWERS -use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in
a line of verse
alliteration - ANSWERS -Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard. Is an
example of?
allusion - ANSWERS -short reference to a person ,event or another work of literature--clarifies a
point
,ambiguity - ANSWERS -a vague or uncertain statemnt; it could have more than one meaning or
intent
Analogy - ANSWERS -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
Andrew Marvell - ANSWERS -Metaphysical Poetry, poet and satirist,
anecdote - ANSWERS -an interesting event told to draw the reader into the reading
Antecedent - ANSWERS -a preceding occurrence or cause or event
Antithesis - ANSWERS -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
aphorism - ANSWERS -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."
aphorism - ANSWERS -Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Is an example of?
Apostrophe - ANSWERS -O grave, where is thy victory? Is an example of?
Apostrophe - ANSWERS -a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something
nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply; address to an
absent or imaginary person
, Assonance - ANSWERS -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
Bathos - ANSWERS -insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke
pity
Blank Verse - ANSWERS -unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter); Poetry written in
iambic pentameter but unrhymed. Shakespeare and Milton.
Caesura - ANSWERS -a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
catharsis - ANSWERS -a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release
from tension
character - ANSWERS -person in a literary work
characterization - ANSWERS -ways an author develop the personalities of the characters
chorus - ANSWERS -in a drama, one or more characters who comment on actions
Clause - ANSWERS -(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not
constituting a complete sentence
Cliche - ANSWERS -She's as busy as a bee. Is an example of?
Climax - ANSWERS -arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
