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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. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
imperative sentence
synecdoche
Mary Shelley
interrogative sentence
2. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
compound sentence
chronological sequence
Harper Lee
compound complex sentence
3. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
complex sentence
John Donne
short story
Irony
4. 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
Metaphysical poets
Andrew Marvell
future perfect verb
fable
5. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Herman Melville
infinitive
Dialect
fable
6. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Countee Cullen
Herman Melville
passive verb
folk tale
7. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
pronoun
elegy
symbolism
symbol
8. 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'
passive verb
apostrophe
William Shakespeare
Dialect
9. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
apostrophe
simple sentence
Characterization
Modeling
10. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
Ray Bradbury
simple sentence
adverb
sentence fragment
11. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
line graph
Willa Cather
past tense verb
setting
12. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
William Shakespeare
independent clause
spatial sequence
conjunction
13. 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
harlem renaissance
paradox
Scaffolding
historical fiction
14. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
noun
George Herbert
John Donne
haiku
15. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
Mary Shelley
William Shakespeare
synecdoche
16. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
passive verb
couplet
proper noun
novel
17. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
line graph
future perfect verb
Simile
paradox
18. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
folk tale
Willa Cather
J.R.R. Tolkein
Diction
19. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
Anne Frank
Characterization
bar graph
Zora Neale Hurston
20. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
legend
pie chart
compound sentence
Activating Prior Knowledge
21. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
setting
compound complex sentence
voice
22. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
voice
common noun
Irony
Stephen Crane
23. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
John Keats
F. Scott Fitzgerald
active verb
tone
24. 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.
pie chart
metonymy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
line graph
25. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
sentence fragment
Willa Cather
allegory
cause and effect
26. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
short story
metonymy
extended metaphor
Jane Austen
27. 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
infinitive
hyperbole
preposition
science fiction
28. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
tone
haiku
sonnet
fable
29. 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
active verb
haiku
Cliche
30. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
harlem renaissance
Antecedent
Diction
Simile
31. 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.
Dialect
Willa Cather
synecdoche
haiku
32. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
extended metaphor
tone
Participle
Cliche
33. 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
Alice Walker
Walt Whitman
myth
haiku
34. A sad or mournful poem
elegy
dependent clause
passive verb
collective noun
35. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
Mark Twain
persuasive
symbol
historical fiction
36. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
collective noun
appeal to authority
past perfect verb
Emily Dickinson
37. Extreme exaggeration
Emily Dickinson
metonymy
hyperbole
Participle
38. A word that takes the place of a noun
appeal to authority
Edgar Allan Poe
pronoun
sonnet
39. 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
William Shakespeare
independent clause
Anne Frank
40. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
bar graph
adverb
Jane Austen
Cliche
41. 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
free verse
C. S. Lewis
voice
cause and effect
42. 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'
line graph
interrogative sentence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
novel
43. A following of one thing after another in time
complex sentence
haiku
John Keats
chronological sequence
44. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
creative
Subject Verb Agreement
simple sentence
symbolism
45. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
chronological sequence
present tense verb
pronoun
Alice Walker
46. A phrase beginning with a preposition
appeal to authority
Metaphysical poets
Dialect
prepositional phrase
47. 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'
common noun
Building Metacognition
couplet
Robert Frost
48. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Analogy
Herman Melville
fairy tale
collective noun
49. verb that can be used as an adjective
John Keats
Modeling
Characterization
participial
50. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
imperative sentence
Allusion
paradox
Scaffolding