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ABCTE English Exam 178 Questions with Verified Answers The history of English is divided into what three periods? - CORRECT ANSWER Early English (Beginning-1066), Middle Enlgish (), Modern English Danelaw - CORRECT ANSWER a political demarcation established by King Alfred the Great in 868 that gave the eastern half of England to the Danes, but guaranteed that the English who lived there would be treated as full citizens... this preserved the English language What type of literature was ...

Praxis II 5038 made from ETS practice exam 2023 Sonnet - Answer-fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is written in iambic pentameter. Ode - Answer-a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. Ballad - Answer-Anonymous narrative poems; the ballad stanza is a four-line stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines with a rhyme of abab or abcb. a poem or song na...

Literary Analysis: “The Birthmark” by Daniel Hawthorne "Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk. Danger is nothing to me ... while this hateful mark makes me the object of your horror and disgust, life is a burden which I would fling down with joy.” This quote is one of the most telling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s main character in “The Birthmark”, Aylmer, a chemical scientist and extremely narcissistic perfectionist. In this exciting yet dark short story, Hawthorne brings to li...

Which of the following statements from the passage most strongly indicates that the passage was written prior to the twenty-first century? A. "The regular holding of deliberative assemblies of a thousand members encounters the gravest difficulties in respect of room and distance. . . ." B. "The crowd . . . is . . . readily influenced by the eloquence of popular orators." C. "[T]hese same assemblies, if divided into small sections, . . . would be much more guarded in their assent." ...

Praxis II 5038 made from ETS practice exam 2023 Sonnet - Answer-fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is written in iambic pentameter. Ode - Answer-a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. Ballad - Answer-Anonymous narrative poems; the ballad stanza is a four-line stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines with a rhyme of abab or abcb. a poem or song na...

Praxis II 5038 made from ETS practice exam 2023-2024 Sonnet - fourteen lines in length, has the requisite rhyme scheme, and is written in iambic pentameter. Ode - a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. Ballad - Anonymous narrative poems; the ballad stanza is a four-line stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines with a rhyme of abab or abcb. a poem or song narrating a story ...

-->The scope of the modernist period. 1945-present -->The scope of the contemporary period. What is the function of literature? -->One of the driving questions of the modernist literary period. Modernism -->A mode of art that does not state directly what it is, but instead remains slightly beyond the grasp of general readers. Robert Frost -->Poet whose relationship with formal education was tenuous at best. Moved to England and befriended Ezra Pound, who inspired him to write p...

AAMC FL 1 CARS Questions and Answers 2023 Which of the following statements from the passage most strongly indicates that the passage was written prior to the twenty-first century? A. "The regular holding of deliberative assemblies of a thousand members encounters the gravest difficulties in respect of room and distance. . . ." B. "The crowd . . . is . . . readily influenced by the eloquence of popular orators." C. "[T]hese same assemblies, if divided into small sections, . . . wou...

TExES English, Language Arts, and Reading 7-12 231 Latest Update Graded A+ You and I/Me "Between You and I" is wrong, "You and I were meant to fly" is correct Less and Fewer Fewer is used when you can count the objects, less is used when you can't Who and Whom Whom is an objective pronoun (An objective pronoun acts as the object of a sentence—it receives the action of the verb. The objective pronouns are her, him, it, me, them, us, and you); it should be used to refer to the object of a...

CSET English Subtest 1 Questions and Answers 2023 Villanelle An intricate French poetic form with 19 lines divided into 5 3-lined stanzas (called tercets), and one final quatrain. It has only 2 rhyming sounds, so it is difficult to write one in English. Petrarchan sonnet Italian sonnet with the rhyme scheme of abba abba. It divides into 2 parts, the first part being an octet and the second being a sestet. Elizabethan or Shakespearean Sonnet Written in iambic pentameter and cons...