Praxis 5047 Middle school english UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Parable - CORRECT ANSWER - realistic and has a moral
Legend - CORRECT ANSWER - exaggerated story about people
Myth - CORRECT ANSWER - literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes,
usually expressing a cultures ideals
Folktale - CORRECT ANSWER - language of the people, does not need a moral, and main
purpose is to entertain
Fairytales - CORRECT ANSWER - element of magic, usually follows a pattern, and
presents an "ideal", may contain "magic 3" or "stereotyping"
Fable - CORRECT ANSWER - non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main
character
Fable - CORRECT ANSWER - Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the Crow"
Fairy Tale Authors - CORRECT ANSWER - Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph
Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
Noodlehead Story - CORRECT ANSWER - humorous folktale in which the reader can
outsmart character(s)
Romanticism - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud
Surrealism - CORRECT ANSWER - movement in literature in the beginning of the 20th
century. element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur
Surrealism Authors - CORRECT ANSWER - Andre Breton, influenced by Freud's free
association work, dream analysis, and the unconscious to free imagination
Existentialism - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Soren Keirkegaard, Blaise Pascal,
Friedrich Neitzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
Louisa May Alcott - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - American writer best known for her young-adult
novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967)
Helen Keller - CORRECT 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).
Jack London - CORRECT ANSWER - American naturalists who achieved a degree of
popular success with his adventure stories The Call of the Wild (1903) and The Sea Wolf (1904),
celebrating the triumph of brute force and the will to survive.
George Orwell - CORRECT ANSWER - English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism,
and commitment to democratic socialism. 1984 (1949), Animal Farm (1945)
, Mary Shelley - CORRECT ANSWER - British Romantic writer, wife of Percy Bysshe
Shelley, and author of Frankenstein (1818), a classic allegory of the flaws of Reason and
Science.
Amy Tan - CORRECT ANSWER - American writer. Hailed for her depiction of the
Chinese-American experience of the late 20th century. Her works explore mother-daughter
relationships. The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Mark Twain - CORRECT ANSWER - American author, also renowned platform lecturer.
Used "romantic" type literature with comedy to entertain his audiences. In 1873 along with the
help of Charles Dudley Warner he wrote The Gilded Age. This is why the time period is called
the "Gilded Age". The greatest contribution he made to American literature was the way he
captured the frontier realism and humor through the dialect his characters use. The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Alice Walker - CORRECT ANSWER - American author who wrote "The Color Purple" in
1982, self-declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Walt Whitman - CORRECT ANSWER - American poet and transcendentalist who was
famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass (1855). He was
therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional
rhyme method in writing poetry.
Harlem Renaissance authors - CORRECT ANSWER - Zora Neale Hurston, Langston
Hughes, Countee Culleen
Transcendentalism Writers - CORRECT ANSWER - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David
Thoreau
British Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER - (1485-1660) world view shifts from
religious life to life on earth, development of human potential, many aspects of love; examples
include William Shakespeare, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, Cavalier poets, Metaphysical
poets
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Parable - CORRECT ANSWER - realistic and has a moral
Legend - CORRECT ANSWER - exaggerated story about people
Myth - CORRECT ANSWER - literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes,
usually expressing a cultures ideals
Folktale - CORRECT ANSWER - language of the people, does not need a moral, and main
purpose is to entertain
Fairytales - CORRECT ANSWER - element of magic, usually follows a pattern, and
presents an "ideal", may contain "magic 3" or "stereotyping"
Fable - CORRECT ANSWER - non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main
character
Fable - CORRECT ANSWER - Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the Crow"
Fairy Tale Authors - CORRECT ANSWER - Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph
Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
Noodlehead Story - CORRECT ANSWER - humorous folktale in which the reader can
outsmart character(s)
Romanticism - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud
Surrealism - CORRECT ANSWER - movement in literature in the beginning of the 20th
century. element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur
Surrealism Authors - CORRECT ANSWER - Andre Breton, influenced by Freud's free
association work, dream analysis, and the unconscious to free imagination
Existentialism - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Soren Keirkegaard, Blaise Pascal,
Friedrich Neitzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
Louisa May Alcott - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - American writer best known for her young-adult
novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967)
Helen Keller - CORRECT 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).
Jack London - CORRECT ANSWER - American naturalists who achieved a degree of
popular success with his adventure stories The Call of the Wild (1903) and The Sea Wolf (1904),
celebrating the triumph of brute force and the will to survive.
George Orwell - CORRECT ANSWER - English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism,
and commitment to democratic socialism. 1984 (1949), Animal Farm (1945)
, Mary Shelley - CORRECT ANSWER - British Romantic writer, wife of Percy Bysshe
Shelley, and author of Frankenstein (1818), a classic allegory of the flaws of Reason and
Science.
Amy Tan - CORRECT ANSWER - American writer. Hailed for her depiction of the
Chinese-American experience of the late 20th century. Her works explore mother-daughter
relationships. The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Mark Twain - CORRECT ANSWER - American author, also renowned platform lecturer.
Used "romantic" type literature with comedy to entertain his audiences. In 1873 along with the
help of Charles Dudley Warner he wrote The Gilded Age. This is why the time period is called
the "Gilded Age". The greatest contribution he made to American literature was the way he
captured the frontier realism and humor through the dialect his characters use. The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Alice Walker - CORRECT ANSWER - American author who wrote "The Color Purple" in
1982, self-declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Walt Whitman - CORRECT ANSWER - American poet and transcendentalist who was
famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass (1855). He was
therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional
rhyme method in writing poetry.
Harlem Renaissance authors - CORRECT ANSWER - Zora Neale Hurston, Langston
Hughes, Countee Culleen
Transcendentalism Writers - CORRECT ANSWER - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David
Thoreau
British Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER - (1485-1660) world view shifts from
religious life to life on earth, development of human potential, many aspects of love; examples
include William Shakespeare, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, Cavalier poets, Metaphysical
poets
