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