FTCE english 6 to 12 Questions and Correct Answers

Gertrude Stein's lover Ans Alice B Toklas apostrophe (figure of speech) Ans exclamatory figure of speech where speaker speaks to personified abstract concept or inanimate object conceit Ans compares two disimilar things in a surprising way transactional approach Ans The idea that the reader constructs a meaning from the text that reflects both the reader and the text. hestia/vesta Ans health and home (greek) Triolet Ans 1 stanza poem of 8 lines Couplet Ans Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. zeugma Ans a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ). abusive fallacy Ans argumentum ad hominem, is in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, The Middle English period Ans Illiterate masses, led by religion, judicial system, crusade. It lasted from 1066 to 1500 Heinrich Ibsen Ans was a Norwegian playwright who served as a music and drama critic. Virginia Woolf Ans one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. She wrote Mrs. Dalloway, Night and Day, The Voyage Out, and Jacob's Room; English novelist and essayist. anastrophe Ans the inversion of the usual order o