FTCE English 6-12 Complete Coverage.
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Alex Haley - ✔✔-Post-Civil War to the Present; Roots
Alice Childress - ✔✔-Post-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st
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FTCE English 6-12 Complete Coverage.
Latest Update. 100% Verified.
Alex Haley - ✔✔-Post-Civil War to the Present; Roots
Alice Childress - ✔✔-Post-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st afro
american playwright on broadway
Alice Walker - ✔✔-Feminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple
allegory - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
alliteration - ✔✔-Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard. Is an example of?
allusion - ✔✔-short reference to a person ,event or another work of literature--clarifies a point
ambiguity - ✔✔-a vague or uncertain statemnt; it could have more than one meaning or intent
Analogy - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-Metaphysical Poetry, poet and satirist,
anecdote - ✔✔-an interesting event told to draw the reader into the reading
Antecedent - ✔✔-a preceding occurrence or cause or event
Antithesis - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Is an example of?
Apostrophe - ✔✔-O grave, where is thy victory? Is an example of?
Apostrophe - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔-insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity
Blank Verse - ✔✔-unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter); Poetry written in iambic pentameter
but unrhymed. Shakespeare and Milton.
Caesura - ✔✔-a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
catharsis - ✔✔-a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension
character - ✔✔-person in a literary work
characterization - ✔✔-ways an author develop the personalities of the characters
chorus - ✔✔-in a drama, one or more characters who comment on actions
Clause - ✔✔-(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete
sentence
Cliche - ✔✔-She's as busy as a bee. Is an example of?
Climax - ✔✔-arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
colloquial (language) - ✔✔-characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; everyday
language we use in conversation--Mark Twain
Conceit - ✔✔-a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy
between seemingly dissimilar objects; ex John Donne metephysical poetry, he compares a flea bite to
the act of love.
confessional poetry - ✔✔-type of modern poetry in which poets speak with openness and frankness
about their lives
conflict - ✔✔-struggle that the protagonist of a story or drama undergoes
Connotation - ✔✔-the implied or associative meaning of a word; The ripple effect surrounding the
implications and associations of a given word.
Consonance - ✔✔-the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
convene - ✔✔-come together; assemble; call to meet; Ex. convene the council
Countee Cullen - ✔✔-Harlem Renaissance, wrote "Any Human to Another," "Color," and "The Ballad of
the Brown Girl;" American Romantic poet.
Couplet - ✔✔-Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Denotation - ✔✔-the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the strict, literal,
dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color
denouement - ✔✔-the resolution of a story as confict is resolves and the know of the plot is untied
dialect - ✔✔-the way of speaking and writing that is particular to a specific region of the country
diction - ✔✔-choice of words to fit the character,theme, setting
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