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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
extended metaphor
voice
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
2. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Ray Bradbury
adjective
past perfect verb
imperative sentence
3. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
compound sentence
limerick
free verse
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
pronoun
complex sentence
appositive
Irony
5. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
extended metaphor
present perfect verb
British Romantics
haiku
6. A word that takes the place of a noun
pronoun
metaphor
pie chart
line graph
7. 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
dependent clause
prepositional phrase
noun
myth
8. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
Characterization
John Keats
cause and effect
appeal to emotion
9. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
Irony
Maya Angelou
10. 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
Mary Shelley
interrogative sentence
haiku
11. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
past tense verb
compare and contrast
Ray Bradbury
Irony
12. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
common noun
Maya Angelou
chronological sequence
setting
13. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
personification
expository
compound sentence
extended metaphor
14. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epic
Herman Melville
participial
science fiction
15. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Ray Bradbury
Simile
Antecedent
spatial sequence
16. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Transcendentalism
past tense verb
haiku
mood
17. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
symbolism
Walt Whitman
extended metaphor
metaphor
18. 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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
conjunction
Allusion
Antecedent
19. Extreme exaggeration
Percy Bysshe Shelley
haiku
bar graph
hyperbole
20. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
C. S. Lewis
bar graph
interrogative sentence
past tense verb
21. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
science fiction
22. 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.
synecdoche
spatial sequence
historical fiction
haiku
23. 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
Langston Hughes
mood
independent clause
C. S. Lewis
24. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Walt Whitman
novel
John Donne
style
25. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
present tense verb
Mary Shelley
Transcendentalism
active verb
26. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
conjunction
compound sentence
fairy tale
novel
27. 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
sonnet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
synecdoche
Transcendentalism
28. 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'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
chronological sequence
haiku
Maya Angelou
29. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
independent clause
limerick
Allusion
exclamatory sentence
30. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
sonnet
paradox
interrogative sentence
Amy Tan
31. 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
extended metaphor
symbolism
Jane Austen
32. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
Epic
William Shakespeare
hyperbole
33. 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
Foreshadowing
tone
Percy Bysshe Shelley
34. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
appeal to authority
George Herbert
Epic
extended metaphor
35. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
common noun
myth
appositive
Imagery
36. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
George Herbert
historical fiction
Analogy
apostrophe
37. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe
tone
38. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
George Orwell
Countee Cullen
line graph
39. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
folk tale
independent clause
Activating Prior Knowledge
Mark Twain
40. 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
John Keats
point of view
Mary Shelley
Countee Cullen
41. A following of one thing after another in time
Imagery
chronological sequence
Alliteration
metaphor
42. 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
pie chart
limerick
pronoun
point of view
43. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
historical fiction
Andrew Marvell
active verb
apostrophe
44. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
Jane Austen
passive verb
Modeling
Countee Cullen
45. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
myth
pie chart
Dialect
Willa Cather
46. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
Metaphysical poets
cause and effect
Percy Bysshe Shelley
mystery
47. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
extended metaphor
adverb
sonnet
style
48. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
style
Mary Shelley
synecdoche
compound complex sentence
49. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
limerick
Mary Shelley
Mark Twain
folk tale
50. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
Emily Dickinson
Harper Lee
symbol
infinitive