MTTC 103 Knowledge Test Toolkit | Elementary Education
Verified Questions & Solutions 2025/2026
Sonnet - correct answer Poem of 14 lines with a set rhyme scheme that varies,
brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard
English (or Shakespearean), Italian, and Petrarchan sonnet types
Ballad - correct answer Form of poetry in a narrative song, usually sung
John Keats's "La Belle Dame sans Merci," Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and
Rain," and Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"
Biographical, deconstructionist, feminist, formalist, historical, mythological,
psychological, reader-response, sociological - correct answer Types of
criticism
Formalist/New Criticism - correct answer Approach that analyzes the inherent
features of a text. Focus is not on author, historical context, or our own rxns, but
on the text itself. Focus on things like grammar, symbols, images...
Reader-Response - correct answer Approach that literature is a transaction
between the physical text and the readers mind. Readers might have different
interpretations.
Ben Jonson - correct answer Major poet and dramatist of 17th century
"The Alchemist," "Volpone," and "Every Man in his Humor"
, John Dryden - correct answer Great English poet, playwright, literary critic, and
satirist
"The Conquest of Granada" (heroic play), "Marriage A-la-mode," "Don
Sebastian," "All for Love," (comedy's and tragedys), and "Absalom and
Achiyophel" (satire poem)
Jeb-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere) - correct answer Greatest playwright of his
time
"The School for Wives" (New type of comedy, 1622), "La Tartuffe," and "The
Misanthrope"
John Donne - correct answer English metaphysical poet, pomes have strong
sensual style
"To Catch a Falling Star," "The Flea," and "The Good Morrow"
Francis Bacon - correct answer English Renaissance essayist and
philosopher, wrote on science and scientific inquiry, promoted scientific method,
1600's
"New Atlantis," and "Instaruratio Magna"
Prose Fiction - correct answer Relies on peoples imagination, using universal
themes to trigger emotional responses from readers; opposite of nonfiction
(facts)
Types: short stories, novels, novellas
Verified Questions & Solutions 2025/2026
Sonnet - correct answer Poem of 14 lines with a set rhyme scheme that varies,
brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard
English (or Shakespearean), Italian, and Petrarchan sonnet types
Ballad - correct answer Form of poetry in a narrative song, usually sung
John Keats's "La Belle Dame sans Merci," Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and
Rain," and Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"
Biographical, deconstructionist, feminist, formalist, historical, mythological,
psychological, reader-response, sociological - correct answer Types of
criticism
Formalist/New Criticism - correct answer Approach that analyzes the inherent
features of a text. Focus is not on author, historical context, or our own rxns, but
on the text itself. Focus on things like grammar, symbols, images...
Reader-Response - correct answer Approach that literature is a transaction
between the physical text and the readers mind. Readers might have different
interpretations.
Ben Jonson - correct answer Major poet and dramatist of 17th century
"The Alchemist," "Volpone," and "Every Man in his Humor"
, John Dryden - correct answer Great English poet, playwright, literary critic, and
satirist
"The Conquest of Granada" (heroic play), "Marriage A-la-mode," "Don
Sebastian," "All for Love," (comedy's and tragedys), and "Absalom and
Achiyophel" (satire poem)
Jeb-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere) - correct answer Greatest playwright of his
time
"The School for Wives" (New type of comedy, 1622), "La Tartuffe," and "The
Misanthrope"
John Donne - correct answer English metaphysical poet, pomes have strong
sensual style
"To Catch a Falling Star," "The Flea," and "The Good Morrow"
Francis Bacon - correct answer English Renaissance essayist and
philosopher, wrote on science and scientific inquiry, promoted scientific method,
1600's
"New Atlantis," and "Instaruratio Magna"
Prose Fiction - correct answer Relies on peoples imagination, using universal
themes to trigger emotional responses from readers; opposite of nonfiction
(facts)
Types: short stories, novels, novellas
