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