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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
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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. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
personification
Willa Cather
bar graph
2. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
metonymy
noun
Countee Cullen
short story
3. 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
limerick
Characterization
Simile
Henry David Thoreau
4. 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
Anne Frank
Scaffolding
declarative sentence
pie chart
5. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
science fiction
common noun
voice
6. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
fairy tale
future perfect verb
personification
7. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
present tense verb
Maya Angelou
conjunction
appositive
8. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Andrew Marvell
past tense verb
William Shakespeare
Ray Bradbury
9. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
appositive
creative
appeal to emotion
Allusion
10. verb that can be used as an adjective
synecdoche
novel
participial
historical fiction
11. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
fable
fairy tale
paradox
spatial sequence
12. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
limerick
present perfect verb
Allusion
science fiction
13. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
Imagery
Alliteration
point of view
expository
14. Extreme exaggeration
voice
hyperbole
Simile
Stephen Crane
15. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
point of view
bar graph
pie chart
John Keats
16. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
participial
haiku
past tense verb
extended metaphor
17. 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
allegory
John Keats
pronoun
Harper Lee
18. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Alice Walker
compound complex sentence
homophone
appeal to authority
19. 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
Dialect
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
Harper Lee
20. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
Mark Twain
Diction
adverb
21. 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'
Subject Verb Agreement
Robert Frost
infinitive
interrogative sentence
22. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
extended metaphor
passive verb
pronoun
Diction
23. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
mystery
appositive
future perfect verb
exclamatory sentence
24. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Herman Melville
collective noun
complex sentence
Harper Lee
25. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
George Orwell
Langston Hughes
metonymy
Zora Neale Hurston
26. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
complex sentence
cause and effect
Foreshadowing
metonymy
27. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
present perfect verb
Stephen Crane
pie chart
George Herbert
28. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Allusion
style
pronoun
sonnet
29. A sad or mournful poem
John Keats
paradox
Percy Bysshe Shelley
elegy
30. 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
style
Mark Twain
haiku
Stephen Crane
31. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
apostrophe
synecdoche
style
Participle
32. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
pronoun
Amy Tan
line graph
metonymy
33. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
appeal to emotion
voice
pronoun
tone
34. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
sonnet
simple sentence
John Keats
legend
35. 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
myth
elegy
Langston Hughes
36. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Maya Angelou
George Herbert
Irony
short story
37. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
Andrew Marvell
Edgar Allan Poe
past perfect verb
Robert Frost
38. Expresses action or state of being
verb
Stephen Crane
John Keats
expository
39. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
allegory
haiku
Willa Cather
Building Metacognition
40. Two consecutive rhyming lines
creative
Emily Dickinson
Harper Lee
couplet
41. 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'
appeal to emotion
Foreshadowing
Henry David Thoreau
prepositional phrase
42. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
fairy tale
Modeling
appeal to emotion
style
43. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
declarative sentence
fable
harlem renaissance
present perfect verb
44. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
historical fiction
Herman Melville
personification
45. 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
exclamatory sentence
dependent clause
Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
Epic
simple sentence
Participle
metonymy
47. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
symbol
Edgar Allan Poe
Participle
fairy tale
48. Original and imaginative
Andrew Marvell
creative
proper noun
Robert Frost
49. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
creative
compound complex sentence
Simile
Herman Melville
50. 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
C. S. Lewis
Alliteration
Maya Angelou
homophone