Praxis 5047 Middle School English
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Parable - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔realistic and has a moral
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
Fable - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the
Crow"
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,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
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,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
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, 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"
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2025/2026 Exam Questions and Verified
Answers | Already Graded A+
Parable - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔realistic and has a moral
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
Fable - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the
Crow"
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,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
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,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
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, 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"
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