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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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1. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
historical fiction
exclamatory sentence
Alliteration
metaphor
2. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
participial
adjective
George Herbert
persuasive
3. 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
Irony
expository
hyperbole
4. 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
creative
dependent clause
Edgar Allan Poe
couplet
5. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
adverb
independent clause
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
Walt Whitman
proper noun
appeal to emotion
setting
7. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
sonnet
William Shakespeare
Antecedent
present tense verb
8. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
metonymy
Alice Walker
elegy
Anne Frank
9. 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
Harper Lee
imperative sentence
Dialect
10. A sad or mournful poem
Transcendentalism
extended metaphor
interrogative sentence
elegy
11. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Herman Melville
Emily Dickinson
hyperbole
apostrophe
12. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Frost
John Keats
compound sentence
13. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
novel
elegy
Willa Cather
appeal to authority
14. A sentence that asks a question
Harper Lee
Mary Shelley
interrogative sentence
J.R.R. Tolkein
15. Original and imaginative
J. D. Salinger
creative
declarative sentence
symbolism
16. 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
Activating Prior Knowledge
symbol
Walt Whitman
independent clause
17. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Metaphysical poets
Foreshadowing
proper noun
Anne Frank
18. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
style
past perfect verb
common noun
Characterization
19. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
adverb
Amy Tan
harlem renaissance
appositive
20. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
Transcendentalism
Countee Cullen
setting
Scaffolding
21. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Robert Frost
proper noun
Cliche
Building Metacognition
22. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Walt Whitman
appositive
sentence fragment
23. 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'
John Donne
William Shakespeare
Building Metacognition
J.R.R. Tolkein
24. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
tone
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mark Twain
25. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Anne Frank
verb
collective noun
Cliche
26. A following of one thing after another in time
chronological sequence
Alliteration
elegy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
free verse
novel
myth
Building Metacognition
28. 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
appositive
creative
Scaffolding
spatial sequence
29. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
Langston Hughes
proper noun
noun
Stephen Crane
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
harlem renaissance
Stephen Crane
Activating Prior Knowledge
folk tale
31. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
synecdoche
George Orwell
noun
participial
32. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
Walt Whitman
paradox
collective noun
Ray Bradbury
33. 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
line graph
British Romantics
Metaphysical poets
John Keats
34. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Analogy
limerick
cause and effect
harlem renaissance
35. 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
metaphor
Henry David Thoreau
metonymy
past perfect verb
36. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
historical fiction
Edgar Allan Poe
appositive
Allusion
37. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Questioning
compare and contrast
legend
limerick
38. African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance - as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissa
allegory
Langston Hughes
interrogative sentence
Percy Bysshe Shelley
39. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
sonnet
John Donne
creative
proper noun
40. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
Cliche
independent clause
pronoun
limerick
41. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
Langston Hughes
complex sentence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
active verb
42. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Characterization
Countee Cullen
homophone
present perfect verb
43. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
passive verb
fairy tale
J. D. Salinger
collective noun
44. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
folk tale
metonymy
Imagery
compound complex sentence
45. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Characterization
independent clause
tone
fable
46. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Modeling
Andrew Marvell
paradox
exclamatory sentence
47. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Mark Twain
Modeling
F. Scott Fitzgerald
cause and effect
48. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
dependent clause
infinitive
Characterization
past tense verb
49. 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'
J.R.R. Tolkein
Robert Frost
folk tale
historical fiction
50. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
personification
Herman Melville
Anne Frank
Mark Twain