ABCTE ELA Exam
1984 - ✅✅-George Orwell
A Doll's House - ✅✅-Henrik Ibsen
A Dream Deferred - ✅✅-Langston Hughes
A Good Man is Hard to Find - ✅✅-Flannery O'Connor
A Midsummer Night's Dream - ✅✅-William Shakespeare
A Modest Proposal - ✅✅-Jonathan Swift
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - ✅✅-James Joyce
A Raisin in the Sun - ✅✅-Lorraine Hansberry
Acts - ✅✅-Sections dividing plays
Affixes - ✅✅-Word parts that are fixed to either the beginning of words
(prefixes) or end of words (suffixes) to create different but related words
Alice in Wonderland - ✅✅-Lewis Carroll
Anagnorisis - ✅✅-recognition on the part of the hero when he/she suddenly
understands how he/she has enmeshed himself in a "web of fate"
✅✅-uu/
anapestic foot -
Annabel Lee - ✅✅-Edgar Allan Poe
Antigone - ✅✅-Sophocles
Aristotle's 5 critical terms relative to tragedy - ✅✅-1. Anagnorisis
2. Hamartia
3. Hubris
, 4. Nemesis
5. Peripateia
Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy -✅✅ -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)
Aside (n) - ✅✅-a line spoken by a character that other characters on stage
cannot hear.
Ballad -✅✅ -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
Beowulf author -✅✅-anonymous
Bildungsroman - ✅✅-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
Billy Budd -✅✅-Herman Melville
blank verse - ✅✅-unrhymed iambic pentameter
Brave New World - ✅✅-Aldous Huxley
Canterbury Tales - ✅✅-Geoffrey Chaucer
carpe diem poetry - ✅✅-poetry that emphasizes the shortness of life and the
need to act in or enjoy the present
Chapters - ✅✅-Sections dividing novels
Characters - ✅✅-People in the story
circumfixes - ✅✅-affixes that attach to both the beginning and end of a root
1984 - ✅✅-George Orwell
A Doll's House - ✅✅-Henrik Ibsen
A Dream Deferred - ✅✅-Langston Hughes
A Good Man is Hard to Find - ✅✅-Flannery O'Connor
A Midsummer Night's Dream - ✅✅-William Shakespeare
A Modest Proposal - ✅✅-Jonathan Swift
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - ✅✅-James Joyce
A Raisin in the Sun - ✅✅-Lorraine Hansberry
Acts - ✅✅-Sections dividing plays
Affixes - ✅✅-Word parts that are fixed to either the beginning of words
(prefixes) or end of words (suffixes) to create different but related words
Alice in Wonderland - ✅✅-Lewis Carroll
Anagnorisis - ✅✅-recognition on the part of the hero when he/she suddenly
understands how he/she has enmeshed himself in a "web of fate"
✅✅-uu/
anapestic foot -
Annabel Lee - ✅✅-Edgar Allan Poe
Antigone - ✅✅-Sophocles
Aristotle's 5 critical terms relative to tragedy - ✅✅-1. Anagnorisis
2. Hamartia
3. Hubris
, 4. Nemesis
5. Peripateia
Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy -✅✅ -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)
Aside (n) - ✅✅-a line spoken by a character that other characters on stage
cannot hear.
Ballad -✅✅ -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
Beowulf author -✅✅-anonymous
Bildungsroman - ✅✅-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
Billy Budd -✅✅-Herman Melville
blank verse - ✅✅-unrhymed iambic pentameter
Brave New World - ✅✅-Aldous Huxley
Canterbury Tales - ✅✅-Geoffrey Chaucer
carpe diem poetry - ✅✅-poetry that emphasizes the shortness of life and the
need to act in or enjoy the present
Chapters - ✅✅-Sections dividing novels
Characters - ✅✅-People in the story
circumfixes - ✅✅-affixes that attach to both the beginning and end of a root
