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Praxis 2 English Literature
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1. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Participle
exclamatory sentence
imperative sentence
Amy Tan
2. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
prepositional phrase
infinitive
proper noun
mood
3. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
style
Zora Neale Hurston
symbol
appositive
4. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
interrogative sentence
future perfect verb
bar graph
Allusion
5. 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
creative
preposition
Mary Shelley
Walt Whitman
6. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
simple sentence
Zora Neale Hurston
Foreshadowing
7. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
cause and effect
Andrew Marvell
tone
8. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
limerick
declarative sentence
Antecedent
common noun
9. A phrase beginning with a preposition
Allusion
prepositional phrase
George Herbert
George Orwell
10. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
harlem renaissance
apostrophe
Participle
tone
11. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
symbol
common noun
sentence fragment
Ray Bradbury
12. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Mary Shelley
Analogy
historical fiction
adjective
13. Originated in late 18th century when poets wrote about nature and beauty - They contrasted the beauty of naure to the harsh reality of the world and cities after the Industrial Revolution - William Wordsworth - William Blake - Percy Bysshe Shelly - J
British Romantics
fable
preposition
Mark Twain
14. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
Robert Frost
future perfect verb
Dialect
hyperbole
15. 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
passive verb
present tense verb
persuasive
16. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
cause and effect
adverb
fairy tale
Maya Angelou
17. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
adverb
point of view
C. S. Lewis
mood
18. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
participial
persuasive
mystery
Characterization
19. 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
George Herbert
proper noun
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. 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
extended metaphor
simple sentence
Scaffolding
Alliteration
21. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
myth
present perfect verb
Modeling
Mark Twain
22. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
sentence fragment
myth
Amy Tan
synecdoche
23. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
creative
complex sentence
Analogy
science fiction
24. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Alliteration
pie chart
Herman Melville
apostrophe
25. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Analogy
Diction
exclamatory sentence
Building Metacognition
26. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
Stephen Crane
adjective
appeal to authority
past tense verb
27. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Willa Cather
Metaphysical poets
short story
Edgar Allan Poe
28. 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
compare and contrast
noun
infinitive
elegy
29. A sad or mournful poem
passive verb
F. Scott Fitzgerald
elegy
future perfect verb
30. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
metaphor
declarative sentence
past perfect verb
homophone
31. 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).
Diction
spatial sequence
pie chart
Edgar Allan Poe
32. 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
limerick
metonymy
creative
prepositional phrase
33. 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'
Antecedent
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson
metonymy
34. 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
Anne Frank
Transcendentalism
prepositional phrase
style
35. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
future perfect verb
Diction
Scaffolding
Allusion
36. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
imperative sentence
proper noun
Questioning
37. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
style
complex sentence
metonymy
historical fiction
38. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Robert Frost
present tense verb
chronological sequence
Imagery
39. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
mood
Mark Twain
Simile
personification
40. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Scaffolding
persuasive
proper noun
Mark Twain
41. A sentence that asks a question
complex sentence
interrogative sentence
free verse
homophone
42. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
William Shakespeare
Willa Cather
symbol
fable
43. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Jane Austen
Subject Verb Agreement
style
fable
44. Extreme exaggeration
Characterization
Antecedent
tone
hyperbole
45. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
Scaffolding
appositive
sonnet
passive verb
46. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
legend
adjective
extended metaphor
preposition
47. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
chronological sequence
Modeling
Willa Cather
British Romantics
48. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Dialect
mystery
harlem renaissance
Building Metacognition
49. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
hyperbole
pie chart
limerick
Activating Prior Knowledge
50. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Countee Cullen
George Herbert
compound sentence
common noun
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