PRAXIS 5047 MIDDLE SCHOOL
ENGLISH FINAL TEST 2026
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ Literary Periods.
Answer: Old English, Middle English, British Romantic, British Victorian,
British Neoclassical, American Renaissance,Harlem Renaissance, Modern,
Postmodern,American Naturalist,Contemporary
◍ Parable.
Answer: realistic and has a moral
◍ CCSS main genres.
Answer: Stories,Drama,Poetry,Literary Nonfiction
◍ Legend.
Answer: exaggerated story about people
◍ Myth.
Answer: literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes, usually
expressing a cultures ideals
◍ Subgenre.
Answer: Biography, Drama,Epic poem, Essay,Lyric,Novel,Prose poem,
Comedy, Gothic,Pastoral, Coming of age,Romance,Satire,Tragedy
◍ Old English.
Answer: 450-1066 (Angle Saxon) Beuwolf(author unknown),Caedmon s
Hymn,The Wife's Lament,The Wanderer(Poems,chronicles,sermons
◍ Folktale.
, Answer: language of the people, does not need a moral, and main purpose is
to entertain
◍ Fairytales.
Answer: element of magic, usually follows a pattern, and presents an
"ideal", may contain "magic 3" or "stereotyping"
◍ Middle English.
Answer: (1066-1500) Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,Malory's "Le More
d'Arthur The Cuckoo Song,(Lyric poem)
◍ Fable.
Answer: non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main character
◍ The Renaissance.
Answer: (1500-1660 ) Elizabethan Age/(1558-1603)Shakespeare, Twelfth
Night, Jacobian Age(1603-1625)/Shakespeare Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth,
Caroline Age (1625-1649) Milton's Paradise Lost ", Common wealth
Age(1649-1660)Hobbes's Leviathan
◍ Fable.
Answer: Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the Crow"
◍ British Romantic.
Answer: (1785-1832) "The Eve of St. Agnes", Austen's "Pride and
Prejudice", " Don Juan","Prometheus Unbound ",
◍ Fairy Tale Authors.
Answer: Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
◍ British Neoclassical.
Answer: Gulliver's Travels/Jonathan Swift, Daniel Decor /Robinson Crusoe,
The Tattler
◍ Victorian.
Answer: Dickenson "Great Expectations", Robert Browning's "Mice and
Men", Carrol's " Alice in Wonderland " Stevenson " Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
,◍ Noodlehead Story.
Answer: humorous folktale in which the reader can outsmart character(s)
◍ Romanticism.
Answer: 18th and 19th centuries that began in Germany and England,
emphasized imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion, wildness, beauty of the
natural world, rights of individuals, and pastoral life.
◍ Harlem Renaissance.
Answer: 1920's: Zora Neale Huston "Their Eyes Were Watching God",
Langston Hughes " The Negro Speaks of Rivers, "Mother to Son ", Counter
Collen" My Soul's High Song"
◍ Modern.
Answer: (1910-1960) English fiction, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce
◍ Symbolism.
Answer: movement in literature during the 19th century in France, reacted
against the standards of realism, emphasized being able to bend the material
world of the 5 senses, poetic expression of complex feelings
◍ Symbolism Authors.
Answer: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud
◍ Surrealism.
Answer: movement in literature in the beginning of the 20th century.
element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur
◍ Postmodern.
Answer: Post WWTwo, reaction to Enlightment,
◍ American Naturalist.
Answer: (1880s to 1940's) depict reality,influenced by Charles
Darwin.Émile Zola
◍ Contemporary.
Answer: ...romance, written after 1970
, ◍ Harlem Renaissance Authors.
Answer: Zora Neale Hurston,Langston Hughes, Counts Cullen
◍ British Romantic Authors.
Answer: John Keats,Percy Bysysshe Shelley,Lord Byron
◍ Metaphysical Poets.
Answer: John Donne,Andrew Marvell,George Herbert
◍ Transcendentalism.
Answer: 19th century New England-protested Puritan etchic and
materialism,Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David , Nathaniel Hawthorne
◍ Colon vs semicolon.
Answer: Colon_introduce a list,Ratio,Title,formal letter,time,city and
publisherSemicolin-join two complete sentences
◍ Kind of sentences.
Answer: Simple, compound,, compound-complex
◍ Surrealism Authors.
Answer: Andre Breton, influenced by Freud's free association work, dream
analysis, and the unconscious to free imagination
◍ Existentialism.
Answer: 19th and 20th centuries that emphasized individual existence,
freedom, and choice, believed that there is not objective rational basis for
moral choice
◍ Existentialism authors.
Answer: Soren Keirkegaard, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Neitzsche, Martin
Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
◍ Types of sentences.
Answer: Declarative,Imperative,Interrogative,Exclamatory
◍ Louisa May Alcott.
Answer: American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women
(1868) Wrote about growing up poor in New England during the Civil War
ENGLISH FINAL TEST 2026
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ Literary Periods.
Answer: Old English, Middle English, British Romantic, British Victorian,
British Neoclassical, American Renaissance,Harlem Renaissance, Modern,
Postmodern,American Naturalist,Contemporary
◍ Parable.
Answer: realistic and has a moral
◍ CCSS main genres.
Answer: Stories,Drama,Poetry,Literary Nonfiction
◍ Legend.
Answer: exaggerated story about people
◍ Myth.
Answer: literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes, usually
expressing a cultures ideals
◍ Subgenre.
Answer: Biography, Drama,Epic poem, Essay,Lyric,Novel,Prose poem,
Comedy, Gothic,Pastoral, Coming of age,Romance,Satire,Tragedy
◍ Old English.
Answer: 450-1066 (Angle Saxon) Beuwolf(author unknown),Caedmon s
Hymn,The Wife's Lament,The Wanderer(Poems,chronicles,sermons
◍ Folktale.
, Answer: language of the people, does not need a moral, and main purpose is
to entertain
◍ Fairytales.
Answer: element of magic, usually follows a pattern, and presents an
"ideal", may contain "magic 3" or "stereotyping"
◍ Middle English.
Answer: (1066-1500) Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,Malory's "Le More
d'Arthur The Cuckoo Song,(Lyric poem)
◍ Fable.
Answer: non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main character
◍ The Renaissance.
Answer: (1500-1660 ) Elizabethan Age/(1558-1603)Shakespeare, Twelfth
Night, Jacobian Age(1603-1625)/Shakespeare Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth,
Caroline Age (1625-1649) Milton's Paradise Lost ", Common wealth
Age(1649-1660)Hobbes's Leviathan
◍ Fable.
Answer: Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the Crow"
◍ British Romantic.
Answer: (1785-1832) "The Eve of St. Agnes", Austen's "Pride and
Prejudice", " Don Juan","Prometheus Unbound ",
◍ Fairy Tale Authors.
Answer: Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
◍ British Neoclassical.
Answer: Gulliver's Travels/Jonathan Swift, Daniel Decor /Robinson Crusoe,
The Tattler
◍ Victorian.
Answer: Dickenson "Great Expectations", Robert Browning's "Mice and
Men", Carrol's " Alice in Wonderland " Stevenson " Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
,◍ Noodlehead Story.
Answer: humorous folktale in which the reader can outsmart character(s)
◍ Romanticism.
Answer: 18th and 19th centuries that began in Germany and England,
emphasized imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion, wildness, beauty of the
natural world, rights of individuals, and pastoral life.
◍ Harlem Renaissance.
Answer: 1920's: Zora Neale Huston "Their Eyes Were Watching God",
Langston Hughes " The Negro Speaks of Rivers, "Mother to Son ", Counter
Collen" My Soul's High Song"
◍ Modern.
Answer: (1910-1960) English fiction, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce
◍ Symbolism.
Answer: movement in literature during the 19th century in France, reacted
against the standards of realism, emphasized being able to bend the material
world of the 5 senses, poetic expression of complex feelings
◍ Symbolism Authors.
Answer: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud
◍ Surrealism.
Answer: movement in literature in the beginning of the 20th century.
element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur
◍ Postmodern.
Answer: Post WWTwo, reaction to Enlightment,
◍ American Naturalist.
Answer: (1880s to 1940's) depict reality,influenced by Charles
Darwin.Émile Zola
◍ Contemporary.
Answer: ...romance, written after 1970
, ◍ Harlem Renaissance Authors.
Answer: Zora Neale Hurston,Langston Hughes, Counts Cullen
◍ British Romantic Authors.
Answer: John Keats,Percy Bysysshe Shelley,Lord Byron
◍ Metaphysical Poets.
Answer: John Donne,Andrew Marvell,George Herbert
◍ Transcendentalism.
Answer: 19th century New England-protested Puritan etchic and
materialism,Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David , Nathaniel Hawthorne
◍ Colon vs semicolon.
Answer: Colon_introduce a list,Ratio,Title,formal letter,time,city and
publisherSemicolin-join two complete sentences
◍ Kind of sentences.
Answer: Simple, compound,, compound-complex
◍ Surrealism Authors.
Answer: Andre Breton, influenced by Freud's free association work, dream
analysis, and the unconscious to free imagination
◍ Existentialism.
Answer: 19th and 20th centuries that emphasized individual existence,
freedom, and choice, believed that there is not objective rational basis for
moral choice
◍ Existentialism authors.
Answer: Soren Keirkegaard, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Neitzsche, Martin
Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
◍ Types of sentences.
Answer: Declarative,Imperative,Interrogative,Exclamatory
◍ Louisa May Alcott.
Answer: American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women
(1868) Wrote about growing up poor in New England during the Civil War
