FTCE English 6-12 Practice Test 1 | 83 Questions with 100% Correct Answers
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The English language is described as a living language because - it changes due to growth and decay. In a living language, words are added and others cease to exist. English has changed over time due to - historical influences, new science and medical discoveries and modifications in social attitud...
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers
The English language is described as a living language because Correct Answer: it
changes due to growth and decay. In a living language, words are added and others
cease to exist.
English has changed over time due to Correct Answer: historical influences, new
science and medical discoveries and modifications in social attitudes.
Romantic poets feel that isolation and alienation are important components to the
creation of their poetry. What does alienation have to do with Romantic Ideology?
Correct Answer: To commune with nature, one needs to be alone with nature. As
being with nature is a cathartic experience to the Romantics, there needs to be a
one-to-one relationship with no other distractions.
Hamlin Garlin and Bret Harte used realism to create texts. Realism is best defined
as Correct Answer: the literary technique of realistically representing the nature of
life and the social world, as it would appear to the common reader. Think of
realism as a literary attempt at photography-a realistic approach as opposed to a
romantic one.
Who is the author attributed with writing The Iliad and The Odyssey? Correct
Answer: Scholars credit Homer, a Greek poet
In the construction of an effective persuasive argument, you must include Correct
Answer: a full recognition and clear analysis of the counterargument showing its
strengths and weaknesses.
What American author is famous for such works as Life on the Mississippi and
Innocents Abroad: or The New Pilgrim;s Progess? Correct Answer: Mark Twain
What is a topic sentence? Correct Answer: A sentence usually located at the
beginning of a paper that states the main premise of the essay.
What is the definition of grammar? Correct Answer: The branch of language study
or linguistic study that deals with the means of showing the relationship between
words in use.
, Approaches to instruction in grammar include Correct Answer: transformational,
traditional and structural
The term alliteration means Correct Answer: a repetitive consonant sound
occuring at the beginning of a word or of a stressed syllable within a word.
What does the narrator of Moby Dick mean when he says "This is my substitute
for pistol and ball"? Correct Answer: If he doesn't get to the sea right away, he
will kill himself. In other words, it suggests that sailing is the only cure for his
depression.
When the narrator refers to "a damp, drizzly November in my soul," he is using
what type of figure of speech. Correct Answer: metaphor, whereby symbols
replace literal representations.
For the purpose of continuity, historians and scholars divide the periods of English
literature into various segments. Correct Answer: Old English, Middle English,
Renaissance, Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern periods.
The term that denotes or classifies a recurring type of literature, also called a
literary form, is more commonly referred to as Correct Answer: Genre is a word
of French that denotes the categorizing or classification of literary works by
subject. Genres can include but are not limited to such categories as westersn,
science fiction, horror, mystery, and detective stories.
Keats, Shelly (Percy Bysshe and Mary), Coleridge, and Wordsmith are names
associated with which period of English Literature? Correct Answer: The authors
are all associated with the Romantic period.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of the most famous authors in American History,
is know by a more familiar pen name. What is it? Correct Answer: Mark Twain,
who took his pen name from the language of the river boats he so loved.
A noun formed from a verb by the addition of -ing, as in run to running, is known
as a (an) Correct Answer: A gerund is fromed by adding -ing to a verb, resulting
in a word that functions as a noun.
When two independent clauses are NOT joined correctly, the sentence is known as
a Correct Answer: A run-on sentence
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