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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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'
Henry David Thoreau
Questioning
John Donne
Maya Angelou
2. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
complex sentence
Herman Melville
J.R.R. Tolkein
Alliteration
3. A sentence that asks a question
style
interrogative sentence
couplet
Metaphysical poets
4. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
bar graph
chronological sequence
common noun
Subject Verb Agreement
5. A sad or mournful poem
Allusion
Alliteration
Herman Melville
elegy
6. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
extended metaphor
proper noun
Modeling
point of view
7. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
compound sentence
paradox
Questioning
Foreshadowing
8. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
Characterization
declarative sentence
9. One of the British Romantics expelled from school for advocating atheism and set out to reform the world. Prometheus Unbound (1820) was a portrait of the revolt of human beings against the laws and customs that oppressed them.
Irony
present perfect verb
Percy Bysshe Shelley
active verb
10. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
folk tale
harlem renaissance
proper noun
John Donne
11. A sentence that requests or commands
compound sentence
imperative sentence
noun
Participle
12. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
future perfect verb
Diction
harlem renaissance
mood
13. A phrase beginning with a preposition
Subject Verb Agreement
prepositional phrase
symbolism
collective noun
14. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
conjunction
C. S. Lewis
compound complex sentence
15. Expresses action or state of being
elegy
fable
Foreshadowing
verb
16. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
style
Andrew Marvell
collective noun
Activating Prior Knowledge
17. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Subject Verb Agreement
C. S. Lewis
adjective
dependent clause
18. A following of one thing after another in time
Subject Verb Agreement
Diction
fable
chronological sequence
19. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
George Herbert
metonymy
collective noun
legend
20. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
common noun
Simile
Transcendentalism
present perfect verb
21. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Allusion
appositive
present perfect verb
Ray Bradbury
22. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
mood
Modeling
simple sentence
historical fiction
23. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
independent clause
tone
future perfect verb
Herman Melville
24. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
homophone
compare and contrast
expository
sonnet
25. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
novel
conjunction
adverb
Metaphysical poets
26. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
spatial sequence
Mary Shelley
present tense verb
sonnet
27. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
setting
Amy Tan
elegy
past tense verb
28. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
expository
fable
Subject Verb Agreement
myth
29. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
mystery
Amy Tan
Andrew Marvell
style
30. 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
interrogative sentence
harlem renaissance
metaphor
Henry David Thoreau
31. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Amy Tan
Antecedent
Epic
metonymy
32. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Andrew Marvell
Willa Cather
paradox
harlem renaissance
33. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
C. S. Lewis
science fiction
infinitive
chronological sequence
34. American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature - as demonstrated in his book - Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writi
Walt Whitman
haiku
Countee Cullen
Metaphysical poets
35. 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'
pronoun
imperative sentence
Characterization
William Shakespeare
36. African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance - as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissa
Langston Hughes
future perfect verb
short story
paradox
37. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
adverb
Henry David Thoreau
spatial sequence
short story
38. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
J.R.R. Tolkein
Analogy
Dialect
extended metaphor
39. A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century - who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them; favored intellect over emotions
J. D. Salinger
Metaphysical poets
style
imperative sentence
40. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
setting
science fiction
Metaphysical poets
pie chart
41. Two consecutive rhyming lines
point of view
fable
couplet
elegy
42. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
harlem renaissance
sentence fragment
line graph
complex sentence
43. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
verb
tone
metaphor
personification
44. Extreme exaggeration
paradox
simple sentence
hyperbole
metaphor
45. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Willa Cather
Cliche
collective noun
Andrew Marvell
46. 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
appositive
Scaffolding
science fiction
J. D. Salinger
47. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
paradox
declarative sentence
appeal to emotion
Stephen Crane
48. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
Transcendentalism
symbolism
synecdoche
Scaffolding
49. A kind of humorous verse of five lines - in which the first - second - and fifth lines rhyme with each other - and the third and fourth lines - which are shorter - form a rhymed couplet
legend
William Shakespeare
limerick
Willa Cather
50. Tell how things are alike and different
Amy Tan
fairy tale
bar graph
compare and contrast