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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
J.R.R. Tolkein
voice
style
couplet
2. 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
dependent clause
Harper Lee
passive verb
preposition
3. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
noun
symbol
George Orwell
creative
4. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
myth
novel
Diction
synecdoche
5. 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'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Shakespeare
Ralph Waldo Emerson
participial
6. 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
legend
John Keats
Alice Walker
Cliche
7. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
appeal to authority
expository
exclamatory sentence
8. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
homophone
Maya Angelou
extended metaphor
voice
9. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
metaphor
chronological sequence
declarative sentence
fable
10. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Diction
participial
Willa Cather
declarative sentence
11. 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
Scaffolding
Emily Dickinson
Metaphysical poets
Dialect
12. 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'
mystery
infinitive
Alice Walker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
past tense verb
noun
Analogy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Cliche
Herman Melville
fable
present perfect verb
15. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
setting
conjunction
C. S. Lewis
preposition
16. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
bar graph
Mark Twain
Cliche
past perfect verb
17. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
common noun
past perfect verb
preposition
18. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Diction
conjunction
legend
19. Tell how things are alike and different
conjunction
spatial sequence
compare and contrast
line graph
20. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
collective noun
John Donne
Jane Austen
appeal to emotion
21. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
Cliche
folk tale
limerick
setting
22. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
harlem renaissance
compound complex sentence
J. D. Salinger
23. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Stephen Crane
Harper Lee
fable
personification
24. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Harper Lee
Emily Dickinson
John Keats
Mark Twain
25. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
present perfect verb
John Donne
George Herbert
simple sentence
26. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Harper Lee
complex sentence
proper noun
pie chart
27. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Stephen Crane
exclamatory sentence
Jane Austen
couplet
28. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
past tense verb
pronoun
couplet
Langston Hughes
29. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
appeal to emotion
Subject Verb Agreement
cause and effect
novel
30. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
appeal to authority
chronological sequence
Herman Melville
Allusion
31. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
spatial sequence
present tense verb
present perfect verb
conjunction
32. 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
common noun
Alliteration
British Romantics
tone
33. A phrase beginning with a preposition
prepositional phrase
Mary Shelley
adjective
Andrew Marvell
34. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
tone
synecdoche
Foreshadowing
persuasive
35. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
complex sentence
imperative sentence
conjunction
Foreshadowing
36. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
simple sentence
tone
Modeling
sentence fragment
37. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
style
Simile
active verb
C. S. Lewis
38. 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
verb
Scaffolding
compound complex sentence
exclamatory sentence
39. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Andrew Marvell
couplet
British Romantics
appeal to authority
40. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
future perfect verb
personification
Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe
41. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
present perfect verb
cause and effect
Foreshadowing
Henry David Thoreau
42. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
science fiction
John Keats
short story
William Shakespeare
43. Original and imaginative
John Donne
noun
creative
Diction
44. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dialect
Walt Whitman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
George Orwell
Metaphysical poets
tone
Subject Verb Agreement
46. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
adverb
Questioning
Activating Prior Knowledge
George Herbert
47. 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.
point of view
harlem renaissance
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
48. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
line graph
sentence fragment
Diction
Jane Austen
49. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
extended metaphor
symbol
Activating Prior Knowledge
adjective
50. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
novel
setting
paradox
F. Scott Fitzgerald