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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
haiku
Building Metacognition
line graph
expository
2. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
science fiction
appeal to emotion
F. Scott Fitzgerald
interrogative sentence
3. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
pronoun
Zora Neale Hurston
style
independent clause
4. 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
Walt Whitman
appeal to authority
Mark Twain
Langston Hughes
5. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
past tense verb
allegory
adjective
6. 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
historical fiction
Ray Bradbury
Simile
Countee Cullen
7. A sentence that requests or commands
voice
imperative sentence
dependent clause
spatial sequence
8. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
metaphor
Antecedent
mood
Participle
9. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
symbol
fable
compound sentence
free verse
10. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
participial
short story
Allusion
past perfect verb
11. 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
Henry David Thoreau
George Herbert
Diction
12. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
harlem renaissance
present perfect verb
George Herbert
Cliche
13. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
Emily Dickinson
common noun
Subject Verb Agreement
voice
14. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
dependent clause
Herman Melville
sentence fragment
tone
15. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
hyperbole
fable
setting
voice
16. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
present perfect verb
preposition
Anne Frank
17. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
apostrophe
Countee Cullen
paradox
sonnet
18. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
appositive
compare and contrast
voice
Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. 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
hyperbole
adverb
British Romantics
Anne Frank
20. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Transcendentalism
past perfect verb
Andrew Marvell
adjective
21. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
appeal to authority
Anne Frank
Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
Zora Neale Hurston
Modeling
Alice Walker
23. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
style
Ray Bradbury
Irony
dependent clause
24. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
folk tale
symbol
mood
F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
chronological sequence
future perfect verb
Alliteration
appeal to authority
26. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Diction
Ralph Waldo Emerson
J. D. Salinger
J.R.R. Tolkein
27. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Zora Neale Hurston
Herman Melville
preposition
sonnet
28. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
J.R.R. Tolkein
style
Willa Cather
synecdoche
29. 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
spatial sequence
Zora Neale Hurston
personification
metaphor
30. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Questioning
participial
Mark Twain
limerick
31. 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.
Mark Twain
short story
Simile
Percy Bysshe Shelley
32. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
British Romantics
passive verb
present tense verb
independent clause
33. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
passive verb
appeal to emotion
George Orwell
34. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
Ray Bradbury
Analogy
independent clause
sonnet
35. 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
Amy Tan
proper noun
Characterization
Stephen Crane
36. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
allegory
Metaphysical poets
Mark Twain
Dialect
37. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
point of view
Jane Austen
Participle
proper noun
38. Expresses action or state of being
Anne Frank
Emily Dickinson
prepositional phrase
verb
39. 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
adverb
Activating Prior Knowledge
dependent clause
exclamatory sentence
40. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Dialect
John Keats
Building Metacognition
Questioning
41. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
future perfect verb
simple sentence
common noun
apostrophe
42. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
allegory
style
spatial sequence
Alliteration
43. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
Mary Shelley
exclamatory sentence
hyperbole
44. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
synecdoche
future perfect verb
passive verb
point of view
45. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
couplet
novel
metonymy
declarative sentence
46. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
Scaffolding
pronoun
symbolism
proper noun
47. 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
creative
compound sentence
Metaphysical poets
Ray Bradbury
48. 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).
free verse
sentence fragment
Edgar Allan Poe
C. S. Lewis
49. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
allegory
noun
exclamatory sentence
mood
50. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
historical fiction
verb
Jane Austen
cause and effect