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GACE English 020, 021 Exam Study Guide 2024
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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Tuesday, July 30, 2024 12:01 AMGACE English 020, 021 Exam Study Guide 2024
Allegory - ✔️✔️A story having both a Literal and Symbolic meaning-Masque of the Red
Death-Poe.
Anaphora - ✔️✔️Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.
Antithesis - ✔️✔️Balanced writing about conflicting ideas.
Aphorism - ✔️✔️A focused, succinct expression about life from a sagacious viewpoint.
Franklin, Pope, Bacon.
Apostrophe - ✔️✔️Addressing an absent or dead person.
Archetype - ✔️✔️Idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar
instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated.
Aristotle's Unities - ✔️✔️Time, Place, Action
Ballad - ✔️✔️In Media Res story sung or told in verse and usually accompanied by music.
Bandwagon - ✔️✔️Tries to persuade the reader to do, think, or buy something because it
is popular or everyone is doing it
Bathos - ✔️✔️insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke
pity
Bildungsroman - ✔️✔️German term signifying "novel of formation" or "novel of education"
the coming of age novel
Blank verse - ✔️✔️iambic pentameter, or five feet of iambs
Caesura - ✔️✔️A pause in a line of poetry //
Catharsis - ✔️✔️an emotional purging of a character
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Children's Lit - ✔️✔️Became popular second half of 18th century. The Visible World of
Pictures by John Amos Comenius.
Cinquain - ✔️✔️A poem with one five-line stanza having no rhyme scheme. Adelaide
Crapsey (1878-1914) named it and invented meter.
comedy - ✔️✔️a form of dramatic literature that is meant to amuse and often ends happily
Compound Sentence - ✔️✔️Two clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction.
Complex Sentence - ✔️✔️an independent clause plus one or more dependent clauses.
Compound/Complex - ✔️✔️one or more dependent clauses plus two or more
independent clauses.
Conceit - ✔️✔️Comparison between seemingly disparate objects or concepts. Donne's
"flea bite to act of love" "The Flea"
Coordinating Conjunction - ✔️✔️FOR, AND, BUT, OR, YET, and SO -- used to join ideas
that are similar; remember to use a comma before a conjunction in a compound
sentence: Ex: Craig gets in trouble, BUT he usually gets out of it.
Correlative Conjunction - ✔️✔️EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, BOTH/AND join pairs of
ideas
Critical thinking tools - ✔️✔️Summarization, question generation, and textual marking
Deductive Reasoning - ✔️✔️Reasons general to specific.
Dramatic Monologue - ✔️✔️Speech given by actor, with audience in mind, reveals key
aspects of character's psyche and sheds insight on the situation at hand. (Invented by
Robert Browning).
English sonnet - ✔️✔️an English variation of the Petrarchan sonnet composed of three
quatrains, each with an independent rhyme scheme, and ended with a rhymed couplet
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