ftce english 5-9 test
which of the following terms does not denote a figure of speech (figurative language)?
Allusion (is an implied reference to a famous person event thing or a part of a another text)
Of the following titles, which is/are both written in actual essay form and essay length , shorter than book length
An essay on shaking palsy
Which of the following is not true about English?
English is the easiest language to learn
Among the following which describes a characteristic that the literary genre of satire and realism both share in common
Ethical issues are often addressed
Regularly requiring students to practice reading short, instructional level texts at least three times to a peer and to give an receive peer feedback about these readings mainly addresses which reading skill?
Fluency
The literary device of personification is used in which example below?
Happiness sped through the halls cajoling as it went
Which of the following would be the most significant factor in teaching Homer's lliad and Odyssey to any particular group of students?
Identifying a translation on the appropriate reading level
Which group of words is not a sentence?
In keeping with the graduation tradition the students in spite of the rain standing in the cafeteria tossing their mortarboards
Which author of young adult fiction won the Newberry Medal for her novel "A Wrinkle in Time"?
Madeleine L Engle
Among these literary genres, in which pair has one been most used within the other?
Poetry with fictional drama
Which of the following is not a technique of prewriting ?
Proofreading, you can not proofread something you have not written
Which of the following is the LEAST effective procedure for promoting consciousness of audience?
Reading all rough drafts before the student write the final copies
Which of the following bits of information best describes the structure of English
Syntax based on word order
Of the following classic works which one is NOT an epic poem?
The Decameron
Among genres of literature, which is typically the most condensed or verbally economical?
a poem
The appearance of a Yankee from Connecticut in the Court of King Arthur is an example of a/an:
anachronism (placing of characters, persons, events)
techniques used to conduct ongoing informal assessment of student progress
analyzing the student work at key stages posing strategic questions observing students as they work
a figure of speech in which someone absent or something inhuman is addressed as through present and able to respond describes:
apostrophe
A composition with no voice will lack the following quality
appeal
Reading assessment should take place
at the end of semester at the end of a unit constantly
The inverted triangle introductory paragraphs, the thesis sentence occurs
at the end of the paragraph
A paper explaining the relationship between food and weight gain contains signal words because, consequently this is how and due to These words suggest that the paper has which text structure
cause and effect structure
Clean as whistle and easy as falling off a log exemplify
cliches
which level of meaning is the hardest aspect of a language to master
connotation (suggested by a word rather than the dictionary definition)
Which of the following should not be included in the opening paragraph of an informative essay
details and examples supporting the main idea
A conversation between two or more people is called a/an
dialogue
overcrowded classes prevent the individual attention needed to facilitate language development. This drawback can be best overcome by
dividing the class into independent study groups
The term soliloquy is used to refer to an element typically found in which literary genre/subgenre?
drama
Before reading a passage, a teacher gives her students an anticipation guide with a list of statements related to the topic, they are about to cover in the reading material. She asks the students to indicate their agreement or disagreement with each statement on the guide. This activity is intended to
elicit students prior knowledge of the topic and set a purpose for reading
A punctuation mark indicating omission, interrupted thought or an incomplete statement is/an
ellipsis
Modeling is a practice hat requires students to
emulate the writing of professionals
The substitution of went to his rest for died exemplifies an
euphemism
Which of the following responses to literature typically give middle school students the most problems?
evaluative
To explain or to inform belongs in the category of
exposition
A student informative composition should consist of a minimum of how many paragraph's?
five
Writing ideas quickly without interruption of the flow of thoughts or attention to conventions is called
free writing
Reading a piece of student writing to assess the overall impression of the product is:
holistic evaluation
This statemen, " I'll die If i don't pass this course exemplifies an
hyperbole
Effective assessment means that
it is integrated with instruction and is not intrusive
Varying the complexity of a graphic organizer exemplifies differentiating which aspect of a lesson?
its process
My name is John Welling Wells Im a dealer in magic and spells in blessings and curses And ever-fill'd purses In prophecies, witches, and knells This poem would be considered a
limeric ( a 5 line humorous verse )
A formative evaluation of student writing
makes comments on the appropriateness of the students interpretation of the prompt and the degree to which the objective was met
A paper written in first person and having characters, a setting , a plot some dialogue and events sequenced chronologically with some flashbacks exemplifies which genre
narration
Which of these elements is less likely to be found in drama and in all genres of literature?
narratives
Oral debate is most closely associated with which form of discourse?
persuasion
The students in Mrs Cline seventh grade language arts class were invited to attend a performance of Romeo and Juliet presented by the drama class at the high school. To best prepare, they should:
read a condensed version of the story and practice attentive listening skills
To enhance reading comprehension
reading material through more than once creating a map for the next reading highlighting for taking notes during reading
Research based strategy
reading more reading along with a more proficient reader self-monitoring progress
A teacher has taught his students to self-monitor their reading by locating where in the passage they are having difficulty, by identifying the specific problem there, and by restarting the difficult sentence or passage in their own words. These strategies are example of:
recognizing story structure
effective assessment requires that
reference materials that classroom instruction has prepared the students to read
What is the correct terminology for a group of related ideas, expressed in multiple lines of text and separated from other groups by spaces, in a genre of poetry?
stanza
The arrangement and relation of words in sentences or sentence structures best describes
syntax
In a timed essay test of an hour's duration, how much time should be devoted to prewriting?
ten minutes
Middle school students bring little, if any initial experience in
textbook reading assignments
Diction is best defined as
the specific word choices a author makes in order to create a particular mood or feeling in the reader
For students with poor vocabularies, the teacher should recommended first that
they read newspapers, magazines, and books on a regular basis
which pair contains terms typically applied to two subgenre of two different literary genres rather than to two subgenres of the same single literary genre?
Bildungsroman and elegy
Which of the following authors was a 19th century British novelist and short-story writer?
Charles Dickens
Among junior-high school students of low-to-average readability levels which work would most likely stir reading interest?
The outsiders, se hinton
Morphemes
The smallest units of language that have an associated meaning.
