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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. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
appeal to authority
infinitive
Dialect
Simile
2. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
J. D. Salinger
sonnet
Diction
declarative sentence
3. 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
Countee Cullen
Scaffolding
C. S. Lewis
John Donne
4. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
folk tale
Alliteration
symbol
elegy
5. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
appositive
present tense verb
Jane Austen
past tense verb
6. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
past perfect verb
line graph
myth
Alliteration
7. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
Cliche
Building Metacognition
pronoun
8. 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'
style
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Epic
Maya Angelou
9. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
interrogative sentence
Foreshadowing
Andrew Marvell
verb
10. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
appeal to emotion
F. Scott Fitzgerald
hyperbole
tone
11. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Foreshadowing
independent clause
bar graph
style
12. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Subject Verb Agreement
declarative sentence
Irony
Jane Austen
13. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
bar graph
verb
future perfect verb
fairy tale
14. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
point of view
declarative sentence
bar graph
personification
15. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Modeling
Zora Neale Hurston
Foreshadowing
tone
16. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
elegy
creative
mood
Mary Shelley
17. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
sentence fragment
J.R.R. Tolkein
symbolism
limerick
18. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
historical fiction
short story
conjunction
bar graph
19. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
appeal to authority
Walt Whitman
noun
Allusion
20. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
limerick
historical fiction
metonymy
Simile
21. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
Characterization
expository
appeal to authority
compound complex sentence
22. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
elegy
simple sentence
Scaffolding
Allusion
23. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
collective noun
J. D. Salinger
fairy tale
Irony
24. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963); 'The Road Not Taken' 'Fire and Ice' 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
William Shakespeare
present tense verb
Robert Frost
bar graph
25. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
Building Metacognition
Metaphysical poets
appeal to authority
Epic
26. 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'
Ray Bradbury
William Shakespeare
personification
science fiction
27. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
bar graph
adverb
Mark Twain
sentence fragment
28. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
novel
exclamatory sentence
Langston Hughes
Transcendentalism
29. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
common noun
extended metaphor
folk tale
science fiction
30. 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.
Herman Melville
creative
haiku
symbolism
31. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
appeal to authority
Irony
active verb
Langston Hughes
32. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
simple sentence
independent clause
British Romantics
appeal to emotion
33. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
collective noun
adverb
hyperbole
free verse
34. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
adverb
John Keats
adjective
cause and effect
35. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
style
past perfect verb
folk tale
Imagery
36. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
short story
Activating Prior Knowledge
folk tale
bar graph
37. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
creative
conjunction
Langston Hughes
Mary Shelley
38. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
voice
George Herbert
Building Metacognition
point of view
39. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
fairy tale
Imagery
British Romantics
Percy Bysshe Shelley
40. Was an Irish - born British[1] novelist - academic - medievalist - literary critic - essayist - lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction - especially The Screwtape Letters - The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilo
hyperbole
C. S. Lewis
legend
Alliteration
41. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
Ray Bradbury
passive verb
pronoun
exclamatory sentence
42. 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
allegory
Analogy
spatial sequence
John Keats
43. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
metaphor
creative
appositive
line graph
44. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Questioning
symbol
mystery
Mark Twain
45. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
sonnet
myth
C. S. Lewis
tone
46. 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.
Langston Hughes
fable
Percy Bysshe Shelley
J. D. Salinger
47. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Anne Frank
Harper Lee
exclamatory sentence
Mark Twain
48. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Alice Walker
passive verb
Building Metacognition
Imagery
49. Expresses action or state of being
verb
Cliche
present tense verb
C. S. Lewis
50. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
apostrophe
past perfect verb
personification
Characterization