FTCE MIDDLE GRADES ENGLISH 5-9
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS| ALREADY GRADED A| ACE
YOUR GRADES.
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.
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.)
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS| ALREADY GRADED A| ACE
YOUR GRADES.
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.
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.)
