GACE: English I & II Question and
answers already passed 2025/2026
Epigram - correct answer ✔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 - correct answer ✔Use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose or criticize people's
stupidity or vices.
ex: "Weekend Update" from Saturday Night Live
Vice - correct answer ✔Immoral or wicked behavior/characteristic
Epitaph - correct answer ✔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 - correct answer ✔Japanese poetry - 3 lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables
Limerick - correct answer ✔A light or humorous form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines one,
two
and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of
aabba.
, Ode - correct answer ✔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 - correct answer ✔A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme
scheme; its subject
was traditionally love.
Shakespearean Sonnet - correct answer ✔Sonnet with a rhyme scheme of abab
cdcd efef gg
Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet - correct answer ✔A form of sonnet made popular by Petrarch with a
rhyme scheme of
abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd
Allegory - correct answer ✔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 - correct answer ✔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.).
answers already passed 2025/2026
Epigram - correct answer ✔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 - correct answer ✔Use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose or criticize people's
stupidity or vices.
ex: "Weekend Update" from Saturday Night Live
Vice - correct answer ✔Immoral or wicked behavior/characteristic
Epitaph - correct answer ✔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 - correct answer ✔Japanese poetry - 3 lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables
Limerick - correct answer ✔A light or humorous form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines one,
two
and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of
aabba.
, Ode - correct answer ✔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 - correct answer ✔A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme
scheme; its subject
was traditionally love.
Shakespearean Sonnet - correct answer ✔Sonnet with a rhyme scheme of abab
cdcd efef gg
Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet - correct answer ✔A form of sonnet made popular by Petrarch with a
rhyme scheme of
abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd
Allegory - correct answer ✔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 - correct answer ✔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.).
