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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. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
prepositional phrase
adjective
noun
persuasive
2. A phrase beginning with a preposition
noun
prepositional phrase
tone
independent clause
3. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Subject Verb Agreement
free verse
verb
voice
4. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
couplet
bar graph
historical fiction
5. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
couplet
J. D. Salinger
symbolism
John Keats
6. Tell how things are alike and different
dependent clause
style
Langston Hughes
compare and contrast
7. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
novel
Simile
Participle
Stephen Crane
8. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
metonymy
fairy tale
extended metaphor
past perfect verb
9. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
voice
passive verb
common noun
independent clause
10. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
allegory
legend
historical fiction
proper noun
11. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen
haiku
exclamatory sentence
expository
12. A word that takes the place of a noun
folk tale
personification
pronoun
Foreshadowing
13. 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
Simile
Robert Frost
fairy tale
14. 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'
future perfect verb
Antecedent
Metaphysical poets
Robert Frost
15. 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
Alliteration
cause and effect
limerick
Amy Tan
16. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
Amy Tan
Epic
hyperbole
appeal to emotion
17. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
Cliche
expository
metaphor
declarative sentence
18. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
Ray Bradbury
point of view
free verse
19. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
paradox
Analogy
allegory
hyperbole
20. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
fairy tale
active verb
George Orwell
short story
21. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
simple sentence
Jane Austen
harlem renaissance
Alliteration
22. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
style
sonnet
dependent clause
prepositional phrase
23. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Alliteration
fable
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Building Metacognition
24. 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
bar graph
Jane Austen
Subject Verb Agreement
25. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
British Romantics
compare and contrast
J. D. Salinger
Diction
26. A sad or mournful poem
Andrew Marvell
Jane Austen
Cliche
elegy
27. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
collective noun
Langston Hughes
symbolism
setting
28. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Amy Tan
present tense verb
line graph
noun
29. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
Anne Frank
complex sentence
proper noun
novel
30. A worn - out idea or overused expression
prepositional phrase
Walt Whitman
Cliche
proper noun
31. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
cause and effect
Maya Angelou
novel
verb
32. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
compound complex sentence
simple sentence
compare and contrast
persuasive
33. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
legend
elegy
Alice Walker
John Keats
34. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
allegory
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
35. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
myth
compound complex sentence
active verb
metonymy
36. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
adjective
Andrew Marvell
Transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson
37. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
future perfect verb
common noun
present tense verb
38. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti
Dialect
Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau
Jane Austen
39. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
William Shakespeare
cause and effect
apostrophe
Henry David Thoreau
40. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
complex sentence
free verse
Irony
Activating Prior Knowledge
41. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
appeal to authority
apostrophe
declarative sentence
Scaffolding
42. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
creative
setting
Analogy
exclamatory sentence
43. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
noun
Imagery
Subject Verb Agreement
creative
44. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Zora Neale Hurston
apostrophe
allegory
British Romantics
45. 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'
Emily Dickinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ray Bradbury
exclamatory sentence
46. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
preposition
John Donne
Robert Frost
47. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
bar graph
Building Metacognition
Simile
Characterization
48. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
John Donne
free verse
couplet
compare and contrast
49. 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
Anne Frank
J.R.R. Tolkein
Maya Angelou
Characterization
50. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
short story
point of view
Anne Frank
mystery