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ABCTE ELA Exam 202 Questions with Verified Answers Paragraph - CORRECT ANSWER A group of connected sentences covering one main topic in a work of prose (such as novels) Stanza - CORRECT ANSWER... A group of verses covering one main topic in a work of poetry Couplets - CORRECT ANSWER two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. Dialogue - CORRECT ANSWER Conversation between characters, typically in a play Monologue or Soliloquy - CORRECT ANSWER Large sections of dialogue spoken by one character or actor Aside (n) - CORRECT ANSWER a line spoken by a character that other characters on stage cannot hear. Characters - CORRECT ANSWER People in the story Plot - CORRECT ANSWER Action of the story Climax - CORRECT ANSWER Most exciting moment of the story; turning point denouement - CORRECT ANSWER Resolution following the climax Chapters - CORRECT ANSWER Sections dividing novels Acts - CORRECT ANSWER Sections dividing plays Meter (in poetry) - CORRECT ANSWER The number of beats or stressed syllables per verse Dimeter (n) - CORRECT ANSWER 2 beats or stressed syllables per verse Trimeter - CORRECT ANSWER 3 beats or stressed syllables per verse Tetrameter - CORRECT ANSWER 4 beats or stressed syllables per verse Pentameter - CORRECT ANSWER 5 beats or stressed syllables per verse iambic meter/foot - CORRECT ANSWER unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable spondaic foot - CORRECT ANSWER two stressed syllables dactylic foot - CORRECT ANSWER /uu anapestic foot - CORRECT ANSWER uu/ trochaic foot - CORRECT ANSWER a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable Rhyme Schemes - CORRECT ANSWER the pattern of rhymes in a poem (ABAB, ABCA, etc.) free verse - CORRECT ANSWER poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter blank verse - CORRECT ANSWER unrhymed iambic pentameter epic poems - CORRECT ANSWER a long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero Epistolary Poems - CORRECT ANSWER Poems that are written & read as letters Ballad - CORRECT ANSWER a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature; often subjects are love, death & religious topics Elegies - CORRECT ANSWER Poems of loss that include lament, praise of the deceased & solace for loss Odes - CORRECT ANSWER Poems that express strong emotions about life pastoral poetry - CORRECT ANSWER poetry that depicts rustic life in idealized terms epigram - CORRECT ANSWER memorable, one-or-two line rhymes Limericks - CORRECT ANSWER humorous 5-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme (2 lines of iambic dimeter, 2 lines of iambic dimeter, followed by 1 of iambic trimeter) Haiku - CORRECT ANSWER A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables Sonnet - CORRECT ANSWER 14 lines of iambic pentameter Petrarchan sonnet - CORRECT ANSWER poem that has one rhyming octave (8 lines) and one rhyming sestet (6 lines) English Sonnet (Shakespearean) - CORRECT ANSWER Rhyme scheme is less flexible (3 quatrains & a couplet or "abab cdcd efef gg" What is the most common meter in poetry? - CORRECT ANSWER Iambic pentameter Who is the "Father of English Literature"? - CORRECT ANSWER Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales - CORRECT ANSWER Geoffrey Chaucer; represents a cross-section of society in the Middle Ages as they make a religious pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas a Beckett Frame-Tale - CORRECT ANSWER A secondary story or stories embedded in the main story metaphysical poetry - CORRECT ANSWER exploration of complex ideas through extended metaphors and paradox Metaphysical Poets - CORRECT ANSWER John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert Romanticism - CORRECT ANSWER Identified with & gained momentum from the French Revolution; reaction against the political & social standards of aristocracy & its overthrowing of them; freedom of expression & power of individual imagination Romantic Authors - CORRECT ANSWER John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Blake - CORRECT ANSWER Songs of Innocence and Experience William Wordsworth - CORRECT ANSWER (1770-1850) Romantic poet, used one of the most important aspects of Romanticism: love of nature. used "real language of men" Samuel Taylor Coleridge - CORRECT ANSWER The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan George Gordon, Lord Byron - CORRECT ANSWER Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley - CORRECT ANSWER wrote "Prometheus Unbound," "Ode to the West Wind," and "To A Skylark" John Keats - CORRECT ANSWER Ode on a Grecian Urn, ode on Indolence, ode on Melancholy carpe diem poetry - CORRECT ANSWER poetry that emphasizes the shortness of life and the need to act in or enjoy the present Example of Carpe Diem Poetry - CORRECT ANSWER Andrew Marvell: To his Coy Mistress; Robert Herrick: To the virgins, to make much of time picaresque novel - CORRECT ANSWER An episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. Ex: Don Quixote, Moll Flanders Gothic novel - CORRECT ANSWER A novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terrors pervades the action; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto; Edgar Allen Poe; Anne Rice Psychological Novels - CORRECT ANSWER Explore characters' motivations; George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Gustave Flaubert's Nadame Bovary Novel of Manners - CORRECT ANSWER A novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of a particular social group; Jane Austen epistolary novel - CORRECT ANSWER A novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another. Western World Sentimental Novels - CORRECT ANSWER Depict emotional rather than only physical love; Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Pastoral Novels - CORRECT ANSWER Idealize country life as idyllic & utopian Bildungsroman - CORRECT ANSWER A coming of age story, including youth's struggles & searches for things such as identity & spiritual understanding of the meaning of life; Charles Dickens' David Copperfield & Great Expectations, JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, William Golding's Lord of the Flies roman a clef - CORRECT ANSWER a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters, often because the truths are too dangerous for authors to state directly; Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, George Orwell's Animal Farm Realism - CORRECT ANSWER Attempting to represent reality as faithfully as possible, to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail; place emphasis on character rather than plot & often address ethical issues Satire - CORRECT ANSWER using humor to expose something or someone to ridicule; Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift How did English drama originally develop? - CORRECT ANSWER From religious ritual- travelers performed pageants or mystery plays to depict biblical events What conventions were common during Shakespeare's Elizabethan dramatic period? - CORRECT ANSWER Asides, Soliloquies, Play within a Play, used colloquial prose for lower class characters speech & stylized verse for upper class characters Comedy (in Ancient Greek drama) - CORRECT ANSWER Play ends with a happy ending What are the 3 types of dramatic comedy? - CORRECT ANSWER Farce, romantic comedy, & satirical comedy Farce - CORRECT ANSWER a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broad or far-fetched humor; a ridiculous sham; Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, The Marx Brothers' movies, the 3 stooges, Pink Panther movie series romantic comedy - CORRECT ANSWER A drama that includes two people well suited to one another who overcome obstacles to be together; Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing; Disney's Cinderella, Guys & Dolls, When Harry Met Sally satirical comedy - CORRECT ANSWER comedy which uses irony and high comedy approach to show human folly; Aristophanes The Birds, Ben Johnson's Volpone Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy - CORRECT ANSWER Portrays a hero's fall in fortune; are sad & depict suffering & pain to cause "terror & pity" in the audience; tragic heroes be basically good, but downfalls are brought by personal action, choice or error (not by bad luck or accident) Anagnorisis - CORRECT ANSWER recognition on the part of the hero when he/she suddenly understands how he/she has enmeshed himself in a "web of fate" Hamartia - CORRECT ANSWER a fatal flaw or error leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine Hubris - CORRECT ANSWER "Violent Transgression"; signifies an arrogant overstepping of moral or cultural bounds; sin of the tragic hero who over-presumes or over-aspires Nemesis - CORRECT ANSWER Cosmic punishment or payback that tragic hero receives for committing hubristic acts Peripateia - CORRECT ANSWER Plot reversal consisting of heroes pivotal actions, which changes her status from safe to endangered Aristotle's 5 critical terms relative to tragedy - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Anagnorisis 2. Hamartia 3. Hubris 4. Nemesis 5. Peripateia Georg Hegel's Theory of Tragedy - CORRECT ANSWER A tragedy must involve some circumstance in which 2 values, or 2 rights, are fatally at odds with one another & conflict directly; one good fighting against another good unto death; Sophocles Antigone- main character experiences conflict between her public duties & her family & religious responsibilities revenge tragedy - CORRECT ANSWER A form of tragic drama in which someone rights a wrong; Agamemnon, Medea, The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, Titus Adronicus Hamlet's "Tragic Flaw" - CORRECT ANSWER Indecision; suffers conflict of whether to suffer with the knowledge of his mother & uncle's assassination of his father or To exact his own revenge & justice against Claudius Theme - CORRECT ANSWER An issue, an idea or a question raised by the text; overall idea of a piece of literature; What is the lesson or message? Common Themes in Literature - CORRECT ANSWER Man's struggle against society, man's struggle against nature; overcoming adversity; importance of family & friendships; man's struggle with faith; sacrificing brings rewards; honesty is the best policy Plot vs. Theme - CORRECT ANSWER What the characters do (the action) vs. lesson or moral of the story- what the author is trying to say What are the themes in parables? - CORRECT ANSWER The lessons they aim to teach (explicit) What are the themes in fables? - CORRECT ANSWER The moral of each story (explicit) What are the themes in fictional works? - CORRECT ANSWER The authors' perspectives on life & human behavior (implicit- readers must infer them with supporting details from text) Literary Structure - CORRECT ANSWER How the piece is organized Theme in Great Gatsby - CORRECT ANSWER Destructiveness of pointless & misguided behavior (pursuit of money) Theme in Les Miserables - CORRECT ANSWER Importance of love & compassion for others (Valjean's love for Cosette sustains him through trying times); Love & Compassion for others beget the same Affixes - CORRECT ANSWER Word parts that are fixed to either the beginning of words (prefixes) or end of words (suffixes) to create different but related words derivational morphemes - CORRECT ANSWER affixes that can be added to a morpheme to change its meaning and may change its part of speech inflectional morphemes - CORRECT ANSWER Form different grammatical versions of words (eg- -s, -ed) circumfixes - CORRECT ANSWER affixes that attach to both the beginning and end of a root Interfixes - CORRECT ANSWER This creates compound words via central affixes: speed and meter become speedometer via the -o-. Determining word meaning through structural analysis - CORRECT ANSWER Prefix + root + suffix What are the four types of context clues that readers can use to determine the meaning of a new word? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Examples (for example, like, such as, eg) 2. Definitions (appositive) 3. Descriptive Words 4. Opposites Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER Sentence structure & word order Denotation - CORRECT ANSWER The dictionary definition of a word connotation (n) - CORRECT ANSWER an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. Diction - CORRECT ANSWER Word choice figure of speech - CORRECT ANSWER an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning Beowulf author - CORRECT ANSWER anonymous Dover Beach author - CORRECT ANSWER Matthew Arnold Epitaph of a Tyrant author - CORRECT ANSWER W.H. Auden The Unknown Citizen author - CORRECT ANSWER W.H. Auden The Armadillo author - CORRECT ANSWER Elizabeth Bishop We Real Cool author - CORRECT ANSWER Gwendolyn Brooks How Do I Love Thee? - CORRECT ANSWER Elizabeth Barrett Browning the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls - CORRECT ANSWER e.e. Cummings next to of course god america i - CORRECT ANSWER E.E. Cummings Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - CORRECT ANSWER Emily Dickinson Sympathy author - CORRECT ANSWER Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask - CORRECT ANSWER Paul Laurence Dunbar The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - CORRECT ANSWER T.S. Eliot Nothing Gold Can Stay - CORRECT ANSWER Robert Frost The Road Not Taken - CORRECT ANSWER Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - CORRECT ANSWER Robert Frost The Middle Passage - CORRECT ANSWER Robert Hayden The Odyssey - CORRECT ANSWER Homer The Negro Speaks of Rivers - CORRECT ANSWER Langston Hughes A Dream Deferred - CORRECT ANSWER Langston Hughes Ode on a Grecian Urn - CORRECT ANSWER John Keats If - CORRECT ANSWER Rudyard Kipling The Children's Hour - CORRECT ANSWER Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paradise Lost - CORRECT ANSWER John Milton The Raven - CORRECT ANSWER Edgar Allen Poe Annabel Lee - CORRECT ANSWER Edgar Allan Poe The Return - CORRECT ANSWER Ezra Pound Sonnet 18 - CORRECT ANSWER William Shakespeare The Passing of Arthur - CORRECT ANSWER Alfred, Lord Tennyson Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - CORRECT ANSWER Dylan Thomas Song of Myself - CORRECT ANSWER Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain! - CORRECT ANSWER Walt Whitman The Red Wheelbarrow - CORRECT ANSWER William Carlos Williams Intimations of Immortality - CORRECT ANSWER William Wordsworth Lake Isle of Innisfree - CORRECT ANSWER William Butler Yeats Waiting for Godot - CORRECT ANSWER Samuel Beckett The Cherry Orchard - CORRECT ANSWER Anton Chekhov Heracles - CORRECT ANSWER Euripides A Raisin in the Sun - CORRECT ANSWER Lorraine Hansberry A Doll's House - CORRECT ANSWER Henrik Ibsen Death of a Salesman - CORRECT ANSWER Arthur Miller Long Day's Journey Into Night - CORRECT ANSWER Eugene O'Neill No Exit - CORRECT ANSWER Jean-Paul Sartre Hamlet - CORRECT ANSWER William Shakespeare Othello - CORRECT ANSWER William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet - CORRECT ANSWER William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream - CORRECT ANSWER William Shakespeare Oedipus Rex - CORRECT ANSWER Sophocles Antigone - CORRECT ANSWER Sophocles Our Town - CORRECT ANSWER Thornton Wilder Pride and Prejudice - CORRECT ANSWER Jane Austen Jane Eyre - CORRECT ANSWER Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights - CORRECT ANSWER Emily Bronte Alice in Wonderland - CORRECT ANSWER Lewis Carroll Don Quixote - CORRECT ANSWER Miguel de Cervantes Canterbury Tales - CORRECT ANSWER Geoffrey Chaucer Heart of Darkness - CORRECT ANSWER Joseph Conrad The Last of the Mohicans - CORRECT ANSWER James Fenimore Cooper Great Expectations - CORRECT ANSWER Charles Dickens Crime and Punishment - CORRECT ANSWER Fyodor Dostoyevsky Sister Carrie - CORRECT ANSWER Theodore Dreiser Invisible Man - CORRECT ANSWER Ralph Ellison The Great Gatsby - CORRECT ANSWER F. Scott Fitzgerald Madame Bovary - CORRECT ANSWER Gustave Flaubert Lord of the Flies - CORRECT ANSWER William Golding The Scarlet Letter - CORRECT ANSWER Nathaniel Hawthorne Hills Like White Elephants - CORRECT ANSWER Ernest Hemingway Their Eyes Were Watching God - CORRECT ANSWER Zora Neale Hurston Brave New World - CORRECT ANSWER Aldous Huxley The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - CORRECT ANSWER Washington Irving A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - CORRECT ANSWER James Joyce The Metamorphosis - CORRECT ANSWER Franz Kafka Billy Budd - CORRECT ANSWER Herman Melville A Good Man is Hard to Find - CORRECT ANSWER Flannery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge - CORRECT ANSWER Flannery O'Connor Gift of the Magi - CORRECT ANSWER O. Henry 1984 - CORRECT ANSWER George Orwell The Tell-Tale Heart - CORRECT ANSWER Edgar Allan Poe Of Mice and Men - CORRECT ANSWER John Steinbeck A Modest Proposal - CORRECT ANSWER Jonathan Swift The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - CORRECT ANSWER James Thurber The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - CORRECT ANSWER Mark Twain Fahrenheit 451 - CORRECT ANSWER Ray Bradbury The Good Earth - CORRECT ANSWER Pearl S. Buck Siddhartha - CORRECT ANSWER Herman Hesse To Kill a Mockingbird - CORRECT ANSWER Harper Lee Poetics - CORRECT ANSWER Aristotle The Souls of Black Folk - CORRECT ANSWER W.E.B. Du Bois Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - CORRECT ANSWER Jonathan Edwards The Diary of Anne Frank - CORRECT ANSWER Anne Frank The Prince - CORRECT ANSWER Machiavelli The Communist Manifesto - CORRECT ANSWER Karl Marx The republic: part III - CORRECT ANSWER Plato Walden - CORRECT ANSWER Henry David Thoreau Up From Slavery - CORRECT ANSWER Booker T. Washington Night - CORRECT ANSWER Elie Wiesel Give me liberty or give me death - CORRECT ANSWER Patrick Henry Declaration of Independence - CORRECT ANSWER Thomas Jefferson I have a dream speech - CORRECT ANSWER Martin Luther King Jr. The Gettysburg Address - CORRECT ANSWER Lincoln [Show More]

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