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2nd 9 Weeks Exam (DOK 2)
Beigesteuert von: Caves
  • 1. Coveted means
A) to urge on
B) to wish for
C) to state clearly
D) not important
  • 2. "So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a _________ of brown waters."
A) chronicle
B) vestibule
C) cascade
D) prudence
  • 3. Which of the following is the best possible theme in the story?
A) Manage your money wisely.
B) Buy good gifts.
C) Hard work is rewarded.
D) Appreciate others.
  • 4. Jesse always ____________ fights between her friends.
A) coveted
B) predominating
C) instigates
D) chronicle
  • 5. The _____________ cat lunged after its prey.
A) agile
B) predominating
C) prudence
D) inconsequential
  • 6. An historical account of events is a/an:
A) vestibule
B) assertion
C) chronicle
D) cascade
  • 7. Who is the author of "The Black Cat"?
A) Richard Connell
B) Saki
C) Frank Stockton
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 8. What point of view does the author use in "The Black Cat"?
A) 3rd limited
B) 1st
C) 2nd
D) 3rd omniscient
  • 9. Poe is known as the "Father of __________."
A) Literature
B) Horror
C) Poetry
D) Short Stories
  • 10. During what time period did "The Black Cat" take place?
A) 1700s
B) 2000s
C) 1900s
D) 1800s
  • 11. Who does the man blame for Virginia's murder in "The Black Cat"?
A) Virginia
B) the devil
C) himself
D) the cat
  • 12. Virginia Poe dies from ______________.
A) natural causes
B) cancer
C) tuberculosis
D) pneumonia
  • 13. Who is the author of "The Raven"?
A) E.A. Poe
B) Frank Connell
C) James Joyce
D) Saki
  • 14. "While I pondered over many a ___________ and curious forgotten lore."
A) desolate
B) respite
C) quaint
D) beguiling
  • 15. Pallid means:
A) charming
B) pale
C) rest
D) strange
  • 16. What is the setting of "The Raven"?
A) bright Spring
B) bleak December
C) humid June
D) snowy Winter
  • 17. Who was "Lenore"?
A) the raven
B) Poe
C) a character in the book
D) Poe's wife Virginia
  • 18. What year was Edgar Allan Poe born?
A) 1900
B) 1800
C) 1803
D) 1809
  • 19. In poetry, what is the use, again and again, of a word or phrase?
A) repetition
B) rhyme
C) figurative language
D) refrain
  • 20. When the word or phrase appears in all the stanzas it is termed a:
A) refrain
B) rhyme
C) repetition
D) simile
  • 21. The the statement about life that the author is communicating through a literay work is
A) rhythm
B) meaning
C) message
D) theme
  • 22. _________________ is the way a poem is organized.
A) Subject
B) Stylistic device
C) Structure
D) Mood
  • 23. ______________ is a form of poetic paragraphs. They indicate separate thoughts and are separated from one another by spaces.
A) Alliteration
B) Rhythm
C) Stanza
D) Style
  • 24. When reading poetry, one should:
A) perform the poem
B) read it once
C) read it several times
D) watch the audience
  • 25. The musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is ________________.
A) onomatopoeia
B) emotion
C) rhythm
D) assonance
  • 26. The use of words that sound like their meaning is:
A) rhyme
B) onomatopoeia
C) alliteration
D) assonance
  • 27. _______________ is the repetition of similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
A) Assonance
B) Alliteration
C) Rhythm
D) Onomatopoeia
  • 28. To understand a poem, readers should consider the following: subject of poem, mood, author's purpose, and emotional effect.
A) disagree
B) agree
  • 29. The literary methods used by the author to create a particular effect is:
A) stanza
B) stylistic devices
C) tone
D) structure
  • 30. Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
A) Did you spill the milk?
B) Tommy ate a piece of cake.
C) Twinkle, twinkle little star.
D) Suzy sold seashells by the seashore.
  • 31. An example of assonance is:
A) Timmy told a tale to the teacher.
B) Bah, bah, black sheep.
C) The car crashed into the ocean.
D) Every elephant eats eggs in the early evening.
  • 32. Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia?
A) The boy ate a bag of potato chips.
B) The car crashed into the ocean.
C) The log crackled in the fireplace.
D) The bell tinkled all night long.
  • 33. An example of end rhyme is:
A) The girl crunched a bag of potato chips.
B) Twinkle, twinkle little star/How I wonder what you are.
C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
D) Love is a flower.
  • 34. The rhyme of words within a line of poetry is:
A) structure
B) end rhyme
C) internal rhyme
D) rhythm
  • 35. In "The Bells", what stylistic device is used in line 4 "How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle?"
A) rhyme
B) assonance
C) rhythm
D) onomatopoeia
  • 36. Who is the author of "The Bells"?
A) Richard Connell
B) Edgar A. Poe
C) Frank Stockton
D) Elvin Alex Poe
  • 37. Benevolence means:
A) self-control
B) social justice
C) good will
D) patience
  • 38. Extremely poor is:
A) forbearance
B) destitute
C) compassion
D) welfare
  • 39. Scrooge has a/an _______________ of wealth to share with the world.
A) mercy
B) individual
C) suffering
D) abundance
  • 40. Which spirits haunt Scrooge?
A) Marley, Past, Present, Future
B) Past, Present, Future
C) wife, sister
D) Marley, Present, Future
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