PRAXIS 5047 COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
●● Legend
Answer: exaggerated story about people
●● Myth
Answer: literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes,
usually expressing a cultures ideals
●● 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"
●● Fable
Answer: non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main
character
,●● Ex. Fable
Answer: Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the Crow"
●● Fairy Tale Authors
Answer: Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
●● 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.
●● 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
●● 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
●● 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
●● Stephen Crane
, Answer: American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, raised in
NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism, realism, impressionism;
themes: ideals v. realities, spiritual crisis, fears. wrote Red Badge of
Courage (1895) about a soldier in Union Army
●● Daniel Defoe
Answer: An English novelist wrote Robinson Crusoe (1791), sailor
shipwrecked on a tropical island. A commentary on what it took to
survive in the 18th century: entrepreneurial ingenuity and the ability to
improvise.
●● Emily Dickinson
Answer: American poet. Born to a successful family with strong
community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life,
"Because I could not stop for Death"
●● Frederick Douglas
Answer: (1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped
slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.
He published his biography, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the
North Star.
●● Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the
Transcendentalist movement. Wrote "self reliance" (1888), He was
EXAMINATION TEST COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
●● Legend
Answer: exaggerated story about people
●● Myth
Answer: literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes,
usually expressing a cultures ideals
●● 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"
●● Fable
Answer: non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main
character
,●● Ex. Fable
Answer: Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the Crow"
●● Fairy Tale Authors
Answer: Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
●● 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.
●● 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
●● 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
●● 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
●● Stephen Crane
, Answer: American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, raised in
NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism, realism, impressionism;
themes: ideals v. realities, spiritual crisis, fears. wrote Red Badge of
Courage (1895) about a soldier in Union Army
●● Daniel Defoe
Answer: An English novelist wrote Robinson Crusoe (1791), sailor
shipwrecked on a tropical island. A commentary on what it took to
survive in the 18th century: entrepreneurial ingenuity and the ability to
improvise.
●● Emily Dickinson
Answer: American poet. Born to a successful family with strong
community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life,
"Because I could not stop for Death"
●● Frederick Douglas
Answer: (1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped
slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.
He published his biography, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the
North Star.
●● Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the
Transcendentalist movement. Wrote "self reliance" (1888), He was
