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