PRAXIS 5047 MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH
MASTER STUDY SHEET 2026 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
◉William Faulkner. Answer: Author of Southern literature in
America based on his experience living in Mississippi during the
early 20th century.
◉Geoffrey Chaucer. Answer: Medieval poet "Father of English
Literature" The Canterbury Tales" portrayed life during the Middle
Ages.
Parlement of Foules-poem - dream vision poems
◉Drama. Answer: a piece of writing that tells a story and is
performed on stage.
◉Poetry. Answer: Written in verses that may be complete sentences,
clauses, or phrases. Rhyming or unrhymed verse.
◉Poetry meter. Answer: following a particular rhythmic pattern:
iambic, dactylic, spondaic, trochaic, or anapestic-w/o regular meter.
,Also, described by the number of beats or stressed syllables per
verse. Gives the poem flow.
◉Free verse poem. Answer: poetry without rhyme or meter
◉Poems. Answer: Free verse, metered but unrhymed, rhyme but
w/o meter, or using both rhyme and meter.
◉Common meter in english. Answer: iambic pentameter
◉Blank verse. Answer: unrhymed iambic pentameter
◉Ballad. Answer: used in musical songs and poems
◉Poetry ballads. Answer: rhymed and metered for subjects: love,
death, murder, or religious topics
◉monologue poems. Answer: poet speaks in the voice of a
character/persona
◉Elegies. Answer: mourning poems: lament, praise, solace
,◉Epic poems. Answer: long, recount heroic deeds and adventures,
stylized language, and combine dramatic and lyrical conventions
◉Epigrams poems. Answer: memorable, one or two-line poems
◉Epistolary poems. Answer: written and read as letters
◉Odes. Answer: evolved from early poems with music and dance
◉Romantic poems. Answer: poems expressing strong feelings and
contemplative thoughts
◉Pastoral poems. Answer: poetry that idealizes nature and country
living
◉Limericks. Answer: two lines of iambic trimeter, 2 lines of iambic
dimeter and one line of iambic trimeter, humorous and or bawdy
◉Haiku. Answer: Japanese poetry form-17 syllables across 3 verses
as 5/7/5. Expressed with concise, depict a moment in time, evoke
illumination and enlightenment.
◉Sonnets. Answer: 14 lines of iambic pentameter, tightly organized
around a theme( English/Italian)
, ◉paragraph. Answer: a group of connected sentences covering one
main topic
◉stanza. Answer: in poetry, a group of verses, divided into stanza or
couplets
◉dialogue. Answer: conversation in a play
◉soliloquies/monologues. Answer: used in drama, a person talking
to oneself
◉denouement. Answer: the resolution following the climax
◉Historical novel. Answer: set fiction in a particular historical
period
◉Novel of manners. Answer: fictional stories that observe, explore,
and analyze the social behaviors of a specific time and place-Jane
Austen
◉Western-world sentimental novels. Answer: love novels originated
in the movement of Romanticicsm
MASTER STUDY SHEET 2026 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
◉William Faulkner. Answer: Author of Southern literature in
America based on his experience living in Mississippi during the
early 20th century.
◉Geoffrey Chaucer. Answer: Medieval poet "Father of English
Literature" The Canterbury Tales" portrayed life during the Middle
Ages.
Parlement of Foules-poem - dream vision poems
◉Drama. Answer: a piece of writing that tells a story and is
performed on stage.
◉Poetry. Answer: Written in verses that may be complete sentences,
clauses, or phrases. Rhyming or unrhymed verse.
◉Poetry meter. Answer: following a particular rhythmic pattern:
iambic, dactylic, spondaic, trochaic, or anapestic-w/o regular meter.
,Also, described by the number of beats or stressed syllables per
verse. Gives the poem flow.
◉Free verse poem. Answer: poetry without rhyme or meter
◉Poems. Answer: Free verse, metered but unrhymed, rhyme but
w/o meter, or using both rhyme and meter.
◉Common meter in english. Answer: iambic pentameter
◉Blank verse. Answer: unrhymed iambic pentameter
◉Ballad. Answer: used in musical songs and poems
◉Poetry ballads. Answer: rhymed and metered for subjects: love,
death, murder, or religious topics
◉monologue poems. Answer: poet speaks in the voice of a
character/persona
◉Elegies. Answer: mourning poems: lament, praise, solace
,◉Epic poems. Answer: long, recount heroic deeds and adventures,
stylized language, and combine dramatic and lyrical conventions
◉Epigrams poems. Answer: memorable, one or two-line poems
◉Epistolary poems. Answer: written and read as letters
◉Odes. Answer: evolved from early poems with music and dance
◉Romantic poems. Answer: poems expressing strong feelings and
contemplative thoughts
◉Pastoral poems. Answer: poetry that idealizes nature and country
living
◉Limericks. Answer: two lines of iambic trimeter, 2 lines of iambic
dimeter and one line of iambic trimeter, humorous and or bawdy
◉Haiku. Answer: Japanese poetry form-17 syllables across 3 verses
as 5/7/5. Expressed with concise, depict a moment in time, evoke
illumination and enlightenment.
◉Sonnets. Answer: 14 lines of iambic pentameter, tightly organized
around a theme( English/Italian)
, ◉paragraph. Answer: a group of connected sentences covering one
main topic
◉stanza. Answer: in poetry, a group of verses, divided into stanza or
couplets
◉dialogue. Answer: conversation in a play
◉soliloquies/monologues. Answer: used in drama, a person talking
to oneself
◉denouement. Answer: the resolution following the climax
◉Historical novel. Answer: set fiction in a particular historical
period
◉Novel of manners. Answer: fictional stories that observe, explore,
and analyze the social behaviors of a specific time and place-Jane
Austen
◉Western-world sentimental novels. Answer: love novels originated
in the movement of Romanticicsm
