PRAXIS 5047 CERTIFICATION REVIEW
SCRIPT 2026 ACCURATE Q&A
COLLECTION
◉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 against slavery and stressed self-reliance,
optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom.
◉Anne Frank. Answer: Dutch-Jewish girl who, with other Jews, hid
from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944; she was found and sent to a
concentration camp where she died. Her diary was 1st published in
1952: "Diary of a Young Girl"
◉S. E. Hinton. Answer: American writer best known for her young-
adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967)
◉Helen Keller. Answer: American author, political activist, lecturer;
first deaf-blind person to earn B.A. She wrote The Story of My Life
(1903) and The Frost King (1892).
SCRIPT 2026 ACCURATE Q&A
COLLECTION
◉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 against slavery and stressed self-reliance,
optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom.
◉Anne Frank. Answer: Dutch-Jewish girl who, with other Jews, hid
from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944; she was found and sent to a
concentration camp where she died. Her diary was 1st published in
1952: "Diary of a Young Girl"
◉S. E. Hinton. Answer: American writer best known for her young-
adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967)
◉Helen Keller. Answer: American author, political activist, lecturer;
first deaf-blind person to earn B.A. She wrote The Story of My Life
(1903) and The Frost King (1892).
