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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
couplet
haiku
Simile
George Orwell
2. Extreme exaggeration
Henry David Thoreau
hyperbole
extended metaphor
pronoun
3. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti
Amy Tan
British Romantics
Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson
4. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
harlem renaissance
point of view
hyperbole
John Keats
5. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
myth
past tense verb
infinitive
Amy Tan
6. A phrase beginning with a preposition
cause and effect
compare and contrast
prepositional phrase
fairy tale
7. An English writer - poet - philologist - and university professor - best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit - The Lord of the Rings - and The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkein
novel
common noun
C. S. Lewis
8. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
myth
past perfect verb
bar graph
extended metaphor
9. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
homophone
style
Transcendentalism
10. American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil - disobedience when he refused to pay the toll - tax to support him Mexican War; wrote 'Walden'
Irony
Henry David Thoreau
John Donne
Zora Neale Hurston
11. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
bar graph
Irony
historical fiction
exclamatory sentence
12. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
Stephen Crane
mystery
Characterization
Amy Tan
13. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
appeal to emotion
Alliteration
George Herbert
bar graph
14. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
Simile
cause and effect
folk tale
Imagery
15. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
George Herbert
Walt Whitman
pie chart
16. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
free verse
complex sentence
pie chart
past perfect verb
17. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
J. D. Salinger
harlem renaissance
expository
allegory
18. American gothic writer known especially for his macabre poems - such as 'The Raven' (1845) - and short stories - including 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1839).
mystery
Edgar Allan Poe
synecdoche
homophone
19. A following of one thing after another in time
pie chart
mood
verb
chronological sequence
20. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
simple sentence
Walt Whitman
J. D. Salinger
synecdoche
21. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
compound complex sentence
Alliteration
Mark Twain
Irony
22. Wrote 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer -' 'To Autumn -' and 'Bright Star - Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;' English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries - the five sense and art - and th
John Keats
future perfect verb
bar graph
Imagery
23. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Robert Frost
free verse
persuasive
mystery
24. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
symbol
Scaffolding
Jane Austen
George Orwell
25. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Robert Frost
imperative sentence
appositive
collective noun
26. Original and imaginative
Stephen Crane
Alliteration
preposition
creative
27. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
George Herbert
independent clause
persuasive
imperative sentence
28. A major form of Japanese verse - written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5 - 7 - and 5 syllables - and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons - often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
myth
haiku
compound complex sentence
J.R.R. Tolkein
29. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
collective noun
Zora Neale Hurston
mood
30. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Zora Neale Hurston
pie chart
Activating Prior Knowledge
collective noun
31. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
F. Scott Fitzgerald
homophone
verb
bar graph
32. A sentence that requests or commands
appositive
John Keats
imperative sentence
infinitive
33. Wrote 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer -' 'To Autumn -' and 'Bright Star - Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;' English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries - the five sense and art - and th
Robert Frost
adjective
Edgar Allan Poe
John Keats
34. helping students to achieve independence in reading by first giving support and then gradually taking it away as students are ready to do the tasks on their own
John Keats
Scaffolding
adverb
appeal to emotion
35. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
symbol
limerick
Activating Prior Knowledge
Participle
36. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
Percy Bysshe Shelley
chronological sequence
point of view
37. A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb
Countee Cullen
dependent clause
Walt Whitman
John Donne
38. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
folk tale
past tense verb
Herman Melville
Percy Bysshe Shelley
39. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Jane Austen
Alliteration
apostrophe
line graph
40. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Antecedent
past tense verb
short story
Anne Frank
41. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
personification
line graph
past tense verb
present perfect verb
42. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
apostrophe
Imagery
conjunction
Henry David Thoreau
43. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
past tense verb
Imagery
present tense verb
Maya Angelou
44. comparison not using like or as; a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
metaphor
cause and effect
Mary Shelley
Participle
45. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
science fiction
homophone
compare and contrast
interrogative sentence
46. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
harlem renaissance
Dialect
J.R.R. Tolkein
present tense verb
47. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Questioning
apostrophe
participial
collective noun
48. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
George Herbert
Foreshadowing
Herman Melville
appeal to emotion
49. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Countee Cullen
Zora Neale Hurston
Robert Frost
George Orwell
50. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Characterization
bar graph
Building Metacognition
novel