English OSAT Witten Test Guide |100% Correct Answers|
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English OSAT Witten Test Guide |100%
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Active Voice *Ans*Sentence subject performs the action
Ex. "Over one-third of the applicants to the school failed the entrance exam"
"She slammed on the brakes as the car sped down the hill"
Adjectival Phrase *Ans*modifies (adds to...
English OSAT Witten Test Guide |100%
Correct Answers|
Active Voice *Ans*✨Sentence subject performs the action
Ex. "Over one-third of the applicants to the school failed the entrance exam"
"She slammed on the brakes as the car sped down the hill"
Adjectival Phrase *Ans*✨modifies (adds to meaning of) a noun or a pronoun
Ex. "A kid *on the roof* is looking at the sky" modifies the noun KID
Adverbial Clause *Ans*✨group of words that function as an adverb. The clause can modify verbs,
adverbs, and adjectives by telling when, where, why, how, how much, and under what condition. They
begin with a subordinating conjunctin (such as after, if, because, and although) and they contain a
subject and a prediate (talks about the subject and which has a verb)
ex. *Whether you like it or not,* you have to go to bed now"
"She likes the red car *more than her husband does*
Adverbial Phrase *Ans*✨A phrase that acts like an djective in a sentence. Like an adverb, it modifies
(adds to meaning of) a verb or other adverb in the sentence.
Ex. "The drives a car *in a very high speed*
Affect vs. Effect *Ans*✨Affect: usually a verb; means to impact or change
Effect: usually a noun; result of change
,If A affects B, B experiences the effect of A's action.
Affixes *Ans*✨additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word
Allusions *Ans*✨figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place,
event, or literary work by way of a passing reference. Ex. "It's no wonder everyone refers to Mary as
another Mother Teresa in the making; she loves to help and care after people everywhere- from the
streets to her own friends
Anecdote *Ans*✨a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
Animal Farm *Ans*✨
Appositive Phrase *Ans*✨An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right
beside it.
ex. "The insect, *a cockroach*, is crawling across the kitchen table.
"During the dinner conversation, Clifford, *the messiest eater at the table*, spewed mashed potatoes
like an erupting volcano"
Archetype *Ans*✨A reference to a concept, a person, or an object that has served as a prototype of
its kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again. Ex. "Romeo and Juliet are
an archetype of eternal love and a star-crossed love story."
Aside *Ans*✨A dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not
supposed to be heard by the other actors on stage
Assonance *Ans*✨Repeated vowel sound
Audre Lorde *Ans*✨
, August Wilson *Ans*✨
Autobiography *Ans*✨account of a person's life written by that person
Ballad *Ans*✨A narrative poem (that tells a story) and has song-like qualities or is meant to be sung.
Written in four-line stanzas
Beowulf *Ans*✨
Bharati Mukherjee *Ans*✨
Bildungsroman *Ans*✨form of storytelling whereby the author bases the plot on the overall growth
of the central character throughout the timeline of the story; the subject undergoes noticeable mental,
physical, social, emotional, moral and often spiritual advancement
Biography *Ans*✨A written account of a person's life
Blank Verse *Ans*✨Poetry written in iambic pentameter but unrhymed
Ex. Shakespeare and Milton
Brave New World *Ans*✨
Caesura *Ans*✨a pause (usually signaled by punctuation) in a line of peotry
ex. 'To err is human, // to forgive, divine (pop)
Earliest recorded use in Beowulf
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