FTCE Middle Grades English 5-9 Exam
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Allegory - answer✔A type of narrative that uses a story to symbolize another meaning (Biblical
stories)
Alliteration - 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 - answer✔A reference to an event literary work or person. *I can not do that because
I'm not superman.
Foreshadowing - answer✔Uses hints in a narrative to let the audience anticipate future events in
the plot.
Hyperbole - 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 - answer✔Compares two things by stating one is the other.*The eyes are the windows
of the soul.
Onomotopeia - answer✔Words that imitate the sound they describe. *Plunk, Whiz, Pop
Oxymoron - answer✔A two word paradox. *Never miss, seriously funny.
Personification - answer✔Another figure of speech which attributes "Human Qualities" to an
inanimate object or abstract entity. *The run down house appeared depressed.
Simile - answer✔Compares one object to another. *He smokes like a chimney. *Pretty as a
picture. *Light as a feather.
Tone - answer✔Refers to the "Attitude" expressed about the subject through the author.
Figurative languange - 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 - 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 - answer✔The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words,
most often at the ends of lines.
Stanza - answer✔grouping of lines, set off by a space, which usually has a set pattern of meter
and rhyme.
Rhythm - 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.)
Cliches - answer✔Saying or dialogue much overworked in common language. They are used in
developing characters and sometimes in comical and farcical ways.
Anaphora - answer✔refers to a figure of speech in which a word or words are repeated at the
beginning of successive lines of verse in rhetoric.
Climax - answer✔Occurs when a state of tension in a literary work reaches its peak, usually with
a resolution of some kind. (increasing level of tension, usually between the protagonist and
antagonist.)
Dialect geography - answer✔the study of speech differences from one geographical area to
another.
Dialect mixture - answer✔the presence in one form of speech with elements from different
neighboring dialects.
Dictation - answer✔the choice of language in a literary work. May be formal, colloquial, and
slang. Used to set a tone for the work meant to induce a mood in the audience.
Discourse - answer✔any coherent succession of sentences, spoken or written. Thus a novel, short
story, essay, speech or interview.
Style - 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 - answer✔Very common among people and business for
communication. Electronic documents will continue to grow.
Effective way of writing an email. - 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 - answer✔the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented
by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Elements of Literature - answer✔1. Exposition
2. Foreshadowing
3. Inciting Force/triggers
4. Conflict
5. Rising Action
6. Crisis
7. Climax
8. Falling action
9. Resolution
Exposition - answer✔The introductory material which give the setting, creates the tone, presents
the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.
Inciting Force/triggers - answer✔The event of character that triggers the conflict.
Conflict - answer✔The essence of fiction. It creates plot. We usually encounter them as (Man
versus...Man, Nature, Society or Self.)
Rising Action - answer✔A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the
inciting force and ends with the climax.
Crisis - answer✔The conflict reaches and a turning point. A this point the opposing forces in the
story meet and the conflict becomes most intense. The crisis occurs before or at the same time as
the climax.
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