Praxis 5047 Middle school English Exam
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Parable - ✔✔realistic and has a moral
Legend - ✔✔exaggerated story about people
Myth - ✔✔literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes, usually
expressing a cultures ideals
Folktale - ✔✔language of the people, does not need a moral, and main purpose is to
entertain
Fairytales - ✔✔element of magic, usually follows a pattern, and presents an "ideal", may
contain "magic 3" or "stereotyping"
Fable - ✔✔non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main character
Fable - ✔✔Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the Crow"
Fairy Tale Authors - ✔✔Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
Noodlehead Story - ✔✔humorous folktale in which the reader can outsmart character(s)
Romanticism - ✔✔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.
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,Symbolism - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud
Surrealism - ✔✔movement in literature in the beginning of the 20th century. element of
surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur
Surrealism Authors - ✔✔Andre Breton, influenced by Freud's free association work,
dream analysis, and the unconscious to free imagination
Existentialism - ✔✔19th and 20th centuries that emphasized individual existence,
freedom, and choice, believed that there is not objective rational basis for moral choice
Existentialism authors - ✔✔Soren Keirkegaard, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Neitzsche,
Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
Louisa May Alcott - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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"
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, Frederick Douglas - ✔✔(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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in
Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967)
Helen Keller - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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)
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2025 Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Parable - ✔✔realistic and has a moral
Legend - ✔✔exaggerated story about people
Myth - ✔✔literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and heroes, usually
expressing a cultures ideals
Folktale - ✔✔language of the people, does not need a moral, and main purpose is to
entertain
Fairytales - ✔✔element of magic, usually follows a pattern, and presents an "ideal", may
contain "magic 3" or "stereotyping"
Fable - ✔✔non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the main character
Fable - ✔✔Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the Crow"
Fairy Tale Authors - ✔✔Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
Noodlehead Story - ✔✔humorous folktale in which the reader can outsmart character(s)
Romanticism - ✔✔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.
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,Symbolism - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud
Surrealism - ✔✔movement in literature in the beginning of the 20th century. element of
surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur
Surrealism Authors - ✔✔Andre Breton, influenced by Freud's free association work,
dream analysis, and the unconscious to free imagination
Existentialism - ✔✔19th and 20th centuries that emphasized individual existence,
freedom, and choice, believed that there is not objective rational basis for moral choice
Existentialism authors - ✔✔Soren Keirkegaard, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Neitzsche,
Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
Louisa May Alcott - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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"
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, Frederick Douglas - ✔✔(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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in
Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967)
Helen Keller - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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)
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