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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Transcendentalism
John Keats
extended metaphor
Cliche
2. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Mary Shelley
Ralph Waldo Emerson
creative
3. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
C. S. Lewis
folk tale
pronoun
voice
4. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
active verb
symbol
paradox
past perfect verb
5. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
elegy
Anne Frank
complex sentence
homophone
6. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
complex sentence
adverb
Andrew Marvell
Characterization
7. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
adjective
George Orwell
J. D. Salinger
William Shakespeare
8. 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
preposition
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Characterization
9. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
active verb
Scaffolding
folk tale
10. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
Maya Angelou
complex sentence
Participle
Modeling
11. An English writer - poet - philologist - and university professor - best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit - The Lord of the Rings - and The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkein
Countee Cullen
Emily Dickinson
declarative sentence
12. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
chronological sequence
Maya Angelou
Building Metacognition
Participle
13. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
extended metaphor
metonymy
free verse
C. S. Lewis
14. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
appositive
Dialect
mood
appeal to emotion
15. 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
historical fiction
John Keats
voice
verb
16. 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
Anne Frank
Stephen Crane
Jane Austen
Metaphysical poets
17. 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'
Alliteration
noun
sonnet
Robert Frost
18. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
appositive
voice
Diction
participial
19. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Transcendentalism
allegory
verb
infinitive
20. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Harper Lee
common noun
novel
C. S. Lewis
21. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
hyperbole
historical fiction
exclamatory sentence
present tense verb
22. 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
Activating Prior Knowledge
metonymy
Anne Frank
metaphor
23. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Analogy
John Donne
symbol
legend
24. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
conjunction
Imagery
creative
25. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
homophone
passive verb
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Subject Verb Agreement
26. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
fable
Henry David Thoreau
homophone
pie chart
27. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
creative
science fiction
Ray Bradbury
appeal to emotion
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'
chronological sequence
Activating Prior Knowledge
infinitive
Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. 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
Diction
Allusion
Henry David Thoreau
infinitive
30. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Mark Twain
Zora Neale Hurston
complex sentence
Willa Cather
31. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
compound complex sentence
William Shakespeare
Willa Cather
expository
32. A following of one thing after another in time
fable
chronological sequence
Building Metacognition
pie chart
33. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Subject Verb Agreement
line graph
apostrophe
proper noun
34. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
J. D. Salinger
persuasive
point of view
past perfect verb
35. A word that takes the place of a noun
C. S. Lewis
conjunction
pronoun
fable
36. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
present perfect verb
John Keats
participial
adverb
37. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
symbol
Mark Twain
passive verb
William Shakespeare
38. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
pronoun
mystery
appeal to emotion
appeal to authority
39. Expresses action or state of being
George Herbert
Irony
voice
verb
40. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
common noun
Edgar Allan Poe
C. S. Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
voice
metaphor
Walt Whitman
C. S. Lewis
42. Extreme exaggeration
setting
present tense verb
spatial sequence
hyperbole
43. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
allegory
metaphor
Herman Melville
44. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Willa Cather
Cliche
William Shakespeare
adjective
45. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
compound sentence
metonymy
Mary Shelley
46. 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
voice
active verb
limerick
apostrophe
47. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
C. S. Lewis
bar graph
declarative sentence
collective noun
48. 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
Transcendentalism
passive verb
dependent clause
Mary Shelley
49. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
proper noun
common noun
spatial sequence
appeal to authority
50. 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.
Langston Hughes
historical fiction
novel
haiku