Praxis Two Middle School ELA 5047 (Teacher Cert. Test) Questions with Answers
Literary Periods Old English, Middle English, British Romantic, British Victorian, British
Neoclassical, American Renaissance,Harlem Renaissance, Modern, Postmodern,American
Naturalist,Contemporary
CCSS main genres Stories,Drama,Poetry,Literary Nonfiction
Subgenre Biography, Drama,Epic poem, Essay,Lyric,Novel,Prose poem, Comedy,
Gothic,Pastoral, Coming of age,Romance,Satire,Tragedy
Old English 450-1066 (Angle Saxon) Beuwolf(author unknown),Caedmon s Hymn,The
Wife's Lament,The Wanderer(Poems,chronicles,sermons
Middle English (1066-1500) Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,Malory's "Le More d'Arthur The
Cuckoo Song,(Lyric poem)
The Renaissance (1500-1660 ) Elizabethan Age/(1558-1603)Shakespeare, Twelfth Night,
Jacobian Age(1603-1625)/Shakespeare Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Caroline Age (1625-1649)
Milton's Paradise Lost ", Common wealth Age(1649-1660)Hobbes's Leviathan
British Romantic (1785-1832) "The Eve of St. Agnes", Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", "
Don Juan","Prometheus Unbound ",
, British Neoclassical Gulliver's Travels/Jonathan Swift, Daniel Decor /Robinson Crusoe,
The Tattler
Victorian Dickenson "Great Expectations", Robert Browning's "Mice and Men", Carrol's "
Alice in Wonderland " Stevenson " Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
Harlem Renaissance 1920's: Zora Neale Huston "Their Eyes Were Watching God",
Langston Hughes " The Negro Speaks of Rivers, "Mother to Son ", Counter Collen" My Soul's
High Song"
Modern (1910-1960) English fiction, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce
Postmodern Post WWTwo, reaction to Enlightment,
American Naturalist (1880s to 1940's) depict reality,influenced by Charles Darwin.Émile
Zola
Contemporary ...romance, written after 1970
Harlem Renaissance Authors Zora Neale Hurston,Langston Hughes, Counts Cullen
British Romantic Authors John Keats,Percy Bysysshe Shelley,Lord Byron
Literary Periods Old English, Middle English, British Romantic, British Victorian, British
Neoclassical, American Renaissance,Harlem Renaissance, Modern, Postmodern,American
Naturalist,Contemporary
CCSS main genres Stories,Drama,Poetry,Literary Nonfiction
Subgenre Biography, Drama,Epic poem, Essay,Lyric,Novel,Prose poem, Comedy,
Gothic,Pastoral, Coming of age,Romance,Satire,Tragedy
Old English 450-1066 (Angle Saxon) Beuwolf(author unknown),Caedmon s Hymn,The
Wife's Lament,The Wanderer(Poems,chronicles,sermons
Middle English (1066-1500) Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,Malory's "Le More d'Arthur The
Cuckoo Song,(Lyric poem)
The Renaissance (1500-1660 ) Elizabethan Age/(1558-1603)Shakespeare, Twelfth Night,
Jacobian Age(1603-1625)/Shakespeare Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Caroline Age (1625-1649)
Milton's Paradise Lost ", Common wealth Age(1649-1660)Hobbes's Leviathan
British Romantic (1785-1832) "The Eve of St. Agnes", Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", "
Don Juan","Prometheus Unbound ",
, British Neoclassical Gulliver's Travels/Jonathan Swift, Daniel Decor /Robinson Crusoe,
The Tattler
Victorian Dickenson "Great Expectations", Robert Browning's "Mice and Men", Carrol's "
Alice in Wonderland " Stevenson " Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
Harlem Renaissance 1920's: Zora Neale Huston "Their Eyes Were Watching God",
Langston Hughes " The Negro Speaks of Rivers, "Mother to Son ", Counter Collen" My Soul's
High Song"
Modern (1910-1960) English fiction, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce
Postmodern Post WWTwo, reaction to Enlightment,
American Naturalist (1880s to 1940's) depict reality,influenced by Charles Darwin.Émile
Zola
Contemporary ...romance, written after 1970
Harlem Renaissance Authors Zora Neale Hurston,Langston Hughes, Counts Cullen
British Romantic Authors John Keats,Percy Bysysshe Shelley,Lord Byron
