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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Expresses action or state of being
creative
verb
line graph
active verb
2. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
Modeling
fable
interrogative sentence
George Herbert
3. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
compare and contrast
folk tale
metaphor
novel
4. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
symbol
declarative sentence
Anne Frank
Simile
5. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
Participle
pronoun
haiku
6. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
synecdoche
style
imperative sentence
Analogy
7. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Activating Prior Knowledge
Harper Lee
metaphor
John Donne
8. 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
persuasive
Jane Austen
Antecedent
9. A sentence that asks a question
cause and effect
past perfect verb
conjunction
interrogative sentence
10. Extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
preposition
Epic
point of view
11. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
J. D. Salinger
Characterization
couplet
12. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Harper Lee
active verb
compound sentence
voice
13. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
mystery
Cliche
metaphor
Anne Frank
14. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
allegory
Emily Dickinson
Modeling
collective noun
15. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
mystery
John Keats
Walt Whitman
independent clause
16. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
passive verb
Modeling
simple sentence
historical fiction
17. 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
Robert Frost
paradox
Questioning
Emily Dickinson
18. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
science fiction
Dialect
Building Metacognition
infinitive
19. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
independent clause
voice
Emily Dickinson
free verse
20. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
past perfect verb
fable
Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
passive verb
22. 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
verb
past perfect verb
line graph
23. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
harlem renaissance
fairy tale
compound sentence
line graph
24. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
bar graph
Herman Melville
compound complex sentence
mood
25. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Edgar Allan Poe
Irony
setting
Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. 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
style
Langston Hughes
novel
John Keats
27. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
line graph
novel
Scaffolding
legend
28. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
proper noun
Maya Angelou
folk tale
apostrophe
29. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
Langston Hughes
prepositional phrase
mood
cause and effect
30. Original and imaginative
creative
Dialect
simple sentence
appeal to emotion
31. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
voice
symbolism
appeal to emotion
apostrophe
32. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
persuasive
style
couplet
Questioning
33. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
past tense verb
John Keats
Anne Frank
Diction
34. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Simile
symbol
Willa Cather
prepositional phrase
35. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
participial
allegory
dependent clause
noun
36. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
metonymy
past perfect verb
simple sentence
cause and effect
37. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
passive verb
Stephen Crane
cause and effect
expository
38. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
symbol
novel
spatial sequence
harlem renaissance
39. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Irony
tone
British Romantics
J. D. Salinger
40. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
compound complex sentence
complex sentence
Allusion
Participle
41. 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
George Herbert
J. D. Salinger
preposition
Antecedent
42. 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
free verse
mood
Willa Cather
Stephen Crane
43. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
point of view
mystery
Antecedent
44. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
voice
cause and effect
synecdoche
sonnet
45. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Questioning
extended metaphor
spatial sequence
46. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
myth
Subject Verb Agreement
noun
John Keats
47. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
J.R.R. Tolkein
limerick
pie chart
free verse
48. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
Robert Frost
myth
sonnet
future perfect verb
49. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
symbolism
science fiction
appeal to emotion
personification
50. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
haiku
Amy Tan
Building Metacognition
adjective