praxis 0041

5 Written Questions

1. The red badge of courage
2. a reference to a familiar person place thing or event
3. a group of Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo, Jong, Hsu, and St. Clair
4. a humorous verse form of five anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba
5. metric line of poetry

5 Matching Questions

1. assonance
2. morphology
3. Malapropism
4. heroic couplet
5. Science fiction

1. a Fiction that deals with current and future development-- Orwell's 1984, ALdous Huxley's Brave New world Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
2. b The study of the structure of words
3. c repetition of the same sound in words close together white- stripes
4. d the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
5. e a pair of lines written in iambic pentameter

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. epic poem about the Trojan war, by Homer
   1. Trochia
   2. Ballad
   3. THe Illiad
   4. caesura
2. Theodore Dreiser's novel; single woman who moved to city and worked in shoe factory but then turned to prostitution due to poverty
   1. Sister carrie
   2. Frame Tale
   3. James Balwin
   4. Stephen crane
3. the study of the meaning in language, in language, study of meanings of words
   1. semantics
   2. phonetics
   3. iambic
   4. Essays
4. language that is meant to be evasive or conceal (downsized = fired loss of job
   1. Don juan
   2. couplet
   3. Novella
   4. double speak
5. a verb ending in "ING" that functions as a noun (gardening is my favorite activity)
   1. sonnet
   2. adverb
   3. gerund
   4. sestina

5 True/False Questions

1. masculine rhyme → A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable

   True        False

2. a street car named desire → Tennessee Williams. (Drama) Blanche DuBois, fading Southern belle. Nymphomania and alcoholism. French Quarter of New Orleans. Sister Stella, crude Stanley. Pleasure is short. One-way ticket.

   True        False

3. Ralph Ellison → THe HOuse of spirits

   True        False

4. foot → A Long narrative detailing a hero's deeds -- THe Aeneid by virgil, The Illiad and Odyssey by Homer, Beowulf, War and peace by Tolstoy, and Hiawatha by Longfellow

   True        False

5. Romance → idealized events far removed from everyday life-- mary shelly's Frankensein, Shakespear's Troilus and Cressida and King Horn (annonomous)

   True        False