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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Tuesday, July 30, 2024 12:01 AMGACE: English I & II Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Epigram - ✔️✔️Couple or quatrain compromising of a single thought or event and often
witty or humorous/satirical
Ex: "Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve
to show it, That every fool is not a poet."
Satire - ✔️✔️Use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose or criticize people's
stupidity or vices.
ex: "Weekend Update" from Saturday Night Live
Vice - ✔️✔️Immoral or wicked behavior/characteristic
Epitaph - ✔️✔️A brief poem or statement in memory of someone who is deceased, used
as, or
suitable for, a tombstone inscription; now, often witty or humorous and written without
intent
of actual funerary use.
Haiku - ✔️✔️Japanese poetry - 3 lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables
Limerick - ✔️✔️A light or humorous form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines
one, two
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and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme
of
aabba.
Ode - ✔️✔️Any of several stanzaic forms more complex than the lyric, with intricate
rhyme schemes and
irregular number of lines, generally of considerable length, always written in a style
marked by a
rich, intense expression of an elevated thought praising a person or object.
Sonnet - ✔️✔️A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme
scheme; its subject
was traditionally love.
Shakespearean Sonnet - ✔️✔️Sonnet with a rhyme scheme of abab
cdcd efef gg
Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet - ✔️✔️A form of sonnet made popular by Petrarch with a
rhyme scheme of
abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd
Allegory - ✔️✔️A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other
people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities
EXAMPLE: Animal Farm; Dante's Inferno; Lord of the Flies
Allusion - ✔️✔️Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature,
religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to
something (usually from literature, etc.).
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