ABCTE ELA Exam 202 Questions with Verified Answers
Paragraph - CORRECT ANSWER A group of connected sentences covering one main topic in a work of
... [Show More] 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 Less]