Praxis 5038 || QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS!!
Transcendentalism correct answers Started in 1830s. Theorized that all people have the
ability within themselves to know things beyond what they can understand in an intellectual
manner. Sought truth in nature and spirituality
Emerson and Thoreau
Free Verse correct answers a poem that can be on various topics and lacks any pattern
Example: poems from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Gothic genre correct answers genre of literature associated with romanticism but include
additional elements of horror or mystery
Flashback correct answers moment in the narrative when the story reflects back on an earlier
moment in time
Ex:
Holden Caulfield in a rest home telling the events that led him there in The Catcher in the
Rye
Stanza correct answers lines chunked together in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose
Dactyl correct answers indicates a stressed, unstressed, unstressed syllable pattern
Example: Delaware
John Keats correct answers English poet who was one of the dominant voices in the
Romanticism movement
"Ode to a Nightingale"
British Romantic Period correct answers era of British literature, most famously poetry;
influenced by Romanticism in opposition to the values of the Neoclassical Period and
traditional literature
Dramatic Irony correct answers When the audience/reader knows something the character
does not.
Example: When the audience sees the Road Runner paint a hole in the side of a cliff, but
Wile E Coyote continues to run ahead at full speed towards the "hole."
Meter (when reading) correct answers the repetition or the stressing of words or phrases
Poetry correct answers Creative writing written in verse and often including rhymes or heavy
use of figurative language
Anapest correct answers indicates a unstressed, unstressed, stressed syllable pattern
engineer( EXAMPLE)
Quintet correct answers a five line stanza
Example: Limericks
, Imagist Movement correct answers a reaction against Romanticism, encouraged reliance on
visual imagery
"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
villanelle poem correct answers 19 line poem with 5 three line stanzas and an ending
quatrain, rhyme scheme is most often: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa
English Renaissance Period correct answers
Volta correct answers ninth line of a Petrarchan sonnet
"That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need" from Milton's "When I Consider How My
Light is Spent"
Comedy correct answers funny, amusing, and light-hearted dramatic literature
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Foot correct answers A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Couplet correct answers two lines that rhyme
Double, double, toil and trouble/ Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Romanticism (literary movement) correct answers literary movement that championed nature,
romantic love,the individual, and the imagination; and shifted the focus of literature from
society and its demands to the feelings of the individual.
Sestina correct answers a poem with six stanzas with six lines and a triplet at the very end
"Altaforte" by Ezra Pound
British Modernist Period correct answers
Walt Whitman correct answers American poet who wrote free verse poetry in the 1800s
poems from Leaves of Grass.
Iambic correct answers indicates a unstressed, stressed syllable pattern
EX:befriend, about, intense
epic poem correct answers a long, narrative poem featuring a hero on a journey while
performing extraordinary acts
The Iliad.
Cinquain correct answers a poetic form on various topics that follows a strict five-line
syllabic pattern
"Snow" by Robert Frost
Robert Frost correct answers an American poet who had a clear, simple word choice
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Sonnet correct answers a fourteen line stanza with a specific rhyme scheme
Shakespeare's sonnets
ANSWERS!!
Transcendentalism correct answers Started in 1830s. Theorized that all people have the
ability within themselves to know things beyond what they can understand in an intellectual
manner. Sought truth in nature and spirituality
Emerson and Thoreau
Free Verse correct answers a poem that can be on various topics and lacks any pattern
Example: poems from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Gothic genre correct answers genre of literature associated with romanticism but include
additional elements of horror or mystery
Flashback correct answers moment in the narrative when the story reflects back on an earlier
moment in time
Ex:
Holden Caulfield in a rest home telling the events that led him there in The Catcher in the
Rye
Stanza correct answers lines chunked together in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose
Dactyl correct answers indicates a stressed, unstressed, unstressed syllable pattern
Example: Delaware
John Keats correct answers English poet who was one of the dominant voices in the
Romanticism movement
"Ode to a Nightingale"
British Romantic Period correct answers era of British literature, most famously poetry;
influenced by Romanticism in opposition to the values of the Neoclassical Period and
traditional literature
Dramatic Irony correct answers When the audience/reader knows something the character
does not.
Example: When the audience sees the Road Runner paint a hole in the side of a cliff, but
Wile E Coyote continues to run ahead at full speed towards the "hole."
Meter (when reading) correct answers the repetition or the stressing of words or phrases
Poetry correct answers Creative writing written in verse and often including rhymes or heavy
use of figurative language
Anapest correct answers indicates a unstressed, unstressed, stressed syllable pattern
engineer( EXAMPLE)
Quintet correct answers a five line stanza
Example: Limericks
, Imagist Movement correct answers a reaction against Romanticism, encouraged reliance on
visual imagery
"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
villanelle poem correct answers 19 line poem with 5 three line stanzas and an ending
quatrain, rhyme scheme is most often: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa
English Renaissance Period correct answers
Volta correct answers ninth line of a Petrarchan sonnet
"That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need" from Milton's "When I Consider How My
Light is Spent"
Comedy correct answers funny, amusing, and light-hearted dramatic literature
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Foot correct answers A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Couplet correct answers two lines that rhyme
Double, double, toil and trouble/ Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Romanticism (literary movement) correct answers literary movement that championed nature,
romantic love,the individual, and the imagination; and shifted the focus of literature from
society and its demands to the feelings of the individual.
Sestina correct answers a poem with six stanzas with six lines and a triplet at the very end
"Altaforte" by Ezra Pound
British Modernist Period correct answers
Walt Whitman correct answers American poet who wrote free verse poetry in the 1800s
poems from Leaves of Grass.
Iambic correct answers indicates a unstressed, stressed syllable pattern
EX:befriend, about, intense
epic poem correct answers a long, narrative poem featuring a hero on a journey while
performing extraordinary acts
The Iliad.
Cinquain correct answers a poetic form on various topics that follows a strict five-line
syllabic pattern
"Snow" by Robert Frost
Robert Frost correct answers an American poet who had a clear, simple word choice
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Sonnet correct answers a fourteen line stanza with a specific rhyme scheme
Shakespeare's sonnets
