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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea






2. 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






3. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb






4. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany






5. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses






6. American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self - reliance - optimism - self - improvement - self - confidence - and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement; Wrote 'Self - Reliance'






7. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)






8. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot






9. A sentence that asks a question






10. 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






11. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






12. Extreme exaggeration






13. Word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence. Examples: in - under - near - behind - to - from - over






14. 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






15. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






16. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)






17. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people






18. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance






19. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements






20. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words






21. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished






22. A sad or mournful poem






23. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)






24. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels






25. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought






26. A form of a verb that generally appears with the word 'to' and acts as a noun - adjective - or adverb; the uninflected form of the verb






27. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)






28. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')






29. 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






30. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb






31. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'






32. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age






33. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)






34. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark






35. 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






36. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings






37. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things






38. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain






39. A word that takes the place of a noun






40. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art






41. Was an English poet and playwright - widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre - eminent dramatist; major works include 'Romeo and Juliet' 'Othello' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'






42. Tell how things are alike and different






43. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.






44. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching






45. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse






46. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.






47. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another






48. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time






49. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses






50. 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