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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. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
J. D. Salinger
George Herbert
noun
creative
2. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
fable
allegory
appeal to authority
science fiction
3. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
compound complex sentence
bar graph
Dialect
Herman Melville
4. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Analogy
J. D. Salinger
Metaphysical poets
5. verb that can be used as an adjective
participial
short story
collective noun
interrogative sentence
6. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Stephen Crane
compare and contrast
Alliteration
Anne Frank
7. A sad or mournful poem
British Romantics
Emily Dickinson
elegy
appeal to emotion
8. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
active verb
free verse
expository
Mary Shelley
9. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
folk tale
Ralph Waldo Emerson
metaphor
Participle
10. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
Stephen Crane
appeal to authority
Zora Neale Hurston
Transcendentalism
11. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
sonnet
Modeling
bar graph
compound complex sentence
12. 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
Anne Frank
expository
future perfect verb
John Keats
13. Expresses action or state of being
verb
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Allusion
Ray Bradbury
14. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Participle
haiku
limerick
Alice Walker
15. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
voice
Metaphysical poets
couplet
John Keats
16. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
expository
Participle
Andrew Marvell
17. 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
sonnet
limerick
legend
18. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Willa Cather
Building Metacognition
Cliche
19. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
verb
George Orwell
symbol
Edgar Allan Poe
20. 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'
Henry David Thoreau
fairy tale
Alice Walker
Robert Frost
21. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Zora Neale Hurston
myth
Analogy
metonymy
22. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
noun
verb
present perfect verb
Foreshadowing
23. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
Willa Cather
setting
homophone
harlem renaissance
24. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Mary Shelley
symbol
infinitive
couplet
25. 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'
symbolism
sonnet
noun
Henry David Thoreau
26. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Participle
Willa Cather
chronological sequence
apostrophe
27. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
present perfect verb
cause and effect
past tense verb
present tense verb
28. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
conjunction
harlem renaissance
Harper Lee
legend
29. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
J.R.R. Tolkein
Simile
sonnet
Building Metacognition
30. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
apostrophe
imperative sentence
William Shakespeare
31. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
adverb
interrogative sentence
harlem renaissance
32. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
Amy Tan
past tense verb
33. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
J.R.R. Tolkein
appeal to authority
Transcendentalism
34. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
J. D. Salinger
present tense verb
Stephen Crane
personification
35. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
active verb
George Orwell
Irony
F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Antecedent
Jane Austen
Stephen Crane
John Keats
37. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
legend
couplet
Countee Cullen
Walt Whitman
38. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
present tense verb
Herman Melville
common noun
setting
39. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
preposition
noun
Alliteration
Robert Frost
40. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Andrew Marvell
appeal to authority
adjective
myth
41. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
line graph
active verb
compound complex sentence
Simile
42. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Zora Neale Hurston
appositive
Walt Whitman
complex sentence
43. 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
British Romantics
Walt Whitman
metonymy
myth
44. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
cause and effect
compound complex sentence
sentence fragment
Robert Frost
45. 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
fable
Transcendentalism
homophone
apostrophe
46. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
pie chart
fable
conjunction
mood
47. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
science fiction
appeal to authority
mystery
metonymy
48. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Characterization
creative
Allusion
metonymy
49. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
sentence fragment
Allusion
setting
sonnet
50. A word that takes the place of a noun
Herman Melville
pronoun
Harper Lee
adverb