Praxis 2 Middle School English
Language Arts (5047) Exam 2025
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
William Shakespeare - ✔✔Poet and playwright of the Renaissance period in Western
culture. Plays, comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies and historical plays.
William Faulkner - ✔✔Author of Southern literature in America based on his
experience living in Mississippi during the early 20th century.
Geoffrey Chaucer - ✔✔Medieval poet "Father of English Literature" The Canterbury
Tales" portrayed life during the Middle Ages.
Parlement of Foules-poem - dream vision poems
Drama - ✔✔a piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on stage.
Poetry - ✔✔Written in verses that may be complete sentences, clauses, or phrases.
Rhyming or unrhymed verse.
Poetry meter - ✔✔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.
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,Free verse poem - ✔✔poetry without rhyme or meter
Poems - ✔✔Free verse, metered but unrhymed, rhyme but w/o meter, or using both
rhyme and meter.
Common meter in english - ✔✔iambic pentameter
Blank verse - ✔✔unrhymed iambic pentameter
Ballad - ✔✔used in musical songs and poems
Poetry ballads - ✔✔rhymed and metered for subjects: love, death, murder, or religious
topics
monologue poems - ✔✔poet speaks in the voice of a character/persona
Elegies - ✔✔mourning poems: lament, praise, solace
Epic poems - ✔✔long, recount heroic deeds and adventures, stylized language, and
combine dramatic and lyrical conventions
Epigrams poems - ✔✔memorable, one or two-line poems
Epistolary poems - ✔✔written and read as letters
Odes - ✔✔evolved from early poems with music and dance
Romantic poems - ✔✔poems expressing strong feelings and contemplative thoughts
Pastoral poems - ✔✔poetry that idealizes nature and country living
Limericks - ✔✔two lines of iambic trimeter, 2 lines of iambic dimeter and one line of
iambic trimeter, humorous and or bawdy
Haiku - ✔✔Japanese poetry form-17 syllables across 3 verses as 5/7/5. Expressed with
concise, depict a moment in time, evoke illumination and enlightenment.
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, Sonnets - ✔✔14 lines of iambic pentameter, tightly organized around a theme(
English/Italian)
paragraph - ✔✔a group of connected sentences covering one main topic
stanza - ✔✔in poetry, a group of verses, divided into stanza or couplets
dialogue - ✔✔conversation in a play
soliloquies/monologues - ✔✔used in drama, a person talking to oneself
denouement - ✔✔the resolution following the climax
Historical novel - ✔✔set fiction in a particular historical period
Novel of manners - ✔✔fictional stories that observe, explore, and analyze the social
behaviors of a specific time and place-Jane Austen
Western-world sentimental novels - ✔✔love novels originated in the movement of
Romanticicsm
Epistolary novel - ✔✔novels told in the form of letters written by their characters rather
than narrative form
Pastoral novels - ✔✔novels and fiction, poetry-lyrically idealized country life as idyllic
and utopian
Bildungsroman - ✔✔German, education novel-focusing on coming of age stories
Roman a clef - ✔✔French, "novel with a key" means the story needs a real-life frame of
reference, or key ,for full comprehension
Realism - ✔✔literary form whose goal is to represent reality as faithfully as possible.
Reality as it exists.
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Language Arts (5047) Exam 2025
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
William Shakespeare - ✔✔Poet and playwright of the Renaissance period in Western
culture. Plays, comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies and historical plays.
William Faulkner - ✔✔Author of Southern literature in America based on his
experience living in Mississippi during the early 20th century.
Geoffrey Chaucer - ✔✔Medieval poet "Father of English Literature" The Canterbury
Tales" portrayed life during the Middle Ages.
Parlement of Foules-poem - dream vision poems
Drama - ✔✔a piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on stage.
Poetry - ✔✔Written in verses that may be complete sentences, clauses, or phrases.
Rhyming or unrhymed verse.
Poetry meter - ✔✔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.
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,Free verse poem - ✔✔poetry without rhyme or meter
Poems - ✔✔Free verse, metered but unrhymed, rhyme but w/o meter, or using both
rhyme and meter.
Common meter in english - ✔✔iambic pentameter
Blank verse - ✔✔unrhymed iambic pentameter
Ballad - ✔✔used in musical songs and poems
Poetry ballads - ✔✔rhymed and metered for subjects: love, death, murder, or religious
topics
monologue poems - ✔✔poet speaks in the voice of a character/persona
Elegies - ✔✔mourning poems: lament, praise, solace
Epic poems - ✔✔long, recount heroic deeds and adventures, stylized language, and
combine dramatic and lyrical conventions
Epigrams poems - ✔✔memorable, one or two-line poems
Epistolary poems - ✔✔written and read as letters
Odes - ✔✔evolved from early poems with music and dance
Romantic poems - ✔✔poems expressing strong feelings and contemplative thoughts
Pastoral poems - ✔✔poetry that idealizes nature and country living
Limericks - ✔✔two lines of iambic trimeter, 2 lines of iambic dimeter and one line of
iambic trimeter, humorous and or bawdy
Haiku - ✔✔Japanese poetry form-17 syllables across 3 verses as 5/7/5. Expressed with
concise, depict a moment in time, evoke illumination and enlightenment.
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, Sonnets - ✔✔14 lines of iambic pentameter, tightly organized around a theme(
English/Italian)
paragraph - ✔✔a group of connected sentences covering one main topic
stanza - ✔✔in poetry, a group of verses, divided into stanza or couplets
dialogue - ✔✔conversation in a play
soliloquies/monologues - ✔✔used in drama, a person talking to oneself
denouement - ✔✔the resolution following the climax
Historical novel - ✔✔set fiction in a particular historical period
Novel of manners - ✔✔fictional stories that observe, explore, and analyze the social
behaviors of a specific time and place-Jane Austen
Western-world sentimental novels - ✔✔love novels originated in the movement of
Romanticicsm
Epistolary novel - ✔✔novels told in the form of letters written by their characters rather
than narrative form
Pastoral novels - ✔✔novels and fiction, poetry-lyrically idealized country life as idyllic
and utopian
Bildungsroman - ✔✔German, education novel-focusing on coming of age stories
Roman a clef - ✔✔French, "novel with a key" means the story needs a real-life frame of
reference, or key ,for full comprehension
Realism - ✔✔literary form whose goal is to represent reality as faithfully as possible.
Reality as it exists.
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