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