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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
present tense verb
Willa Cather
independent clause
2. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
George Orwell
chronological sequence
past tense verb
British Romantics
3. 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
Langston Hughes
setting
metaphor
Alice Walker
4. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Activating Prior Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau
interrogative sentence
5. 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
verb
historical fiction
compare and contrast
limerick
6. 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
Activating Prior Knowledge
Foreshadowing
Antecedent
7. Extreme exaggeration
Herman Melville
hyperbole
F. Scott Fitzgerald
tone
8. Original and imaginative
voice
Irony
mystery
creative
9. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
collective noun
10. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
infinitive
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantics
11. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
harlem renaissance
compound sentence
Countee Cullen
complex sentence
12. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
collective noun
legend
spatial sequence
sentence fragment
13. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
John Keats
adjective
prepositional phrase
past perfect verb
14. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
extended metaphor
appeal to authority
Walt Whitman
simple sentence
15. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
passive verb
conjunction
symbolism
spatial sequence
16. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
verb
couplet
Ray Bradbury
Mary Shelley
17. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
Walt Whitman
Irony
adverb
myth
18. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Willa Cather
limerick
Participle
elegy
19. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
mood
Anne Frank
Harper Lee
complex sentence
20. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Questioning
noun
past perfect verb
pronoun
21. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Irony
present tense verb
expository
J.R.R. Tolkein
22. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
common noun
Anne Frank
Allusion
free verse
23. American gothic writer known especially for his macabre poems - such as 'The Raven' (1845) - and short stories - including 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1839).
pronoun
compound complex sentence
Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen Crane
24. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Dialect
folk tale
collective noun
spatial sequence
25. 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
Characterization
Zora Neale Hurston
limerick
preposition
26. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
passive verb
metonymy
creative
line graph
27. A following of one thing after another in time
Anne Frank
appeal to authority
chronological sequence
Epic
28. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Anne Frank
simple sentence
mood
personification
29. 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
J.R.R. Tolkein
Emily Dickinson
tone
mood
30. 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
metonymy
Transcendentalism
free verse
point of view
31. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
limerick
F. Scott Fitzgerald
legend
independent clause
32. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
J. D. Salinger
Anne Frank
Alliteration
present tense verb
33. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
myth
Participle
harlem renaissance
Modeling
34. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
folk tale
compound sentence
present perfect verb
mystery
35. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
chronological sequence
Characterization
short story
independent clause
36. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
declarative sentence
Characterization
present tense verb
synecdoche
37. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
free verse
short story
John Donne
chronological sequence
38. Tell how things are alike and different
synecdoche
compare and contrast
Transcendentalism
common noun
39. 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
appeal to authority
haiku
metaphor
Walt Whitman
40. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
interrogative sentence
future perfect verb
John Keats
Zora Neale Hurston
41. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
science fiction
adverb
Foreshadowing
mystery
42. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
Anne Frank
setting
C. S. Lewis
compound complex sentence
43. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Antecedent
novel
collective noun
expository
44. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Mark Twain
metaphor
British Romantics
couplet
45. 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
Andrew Marvell
sonnet
dependent clause
collective noun
46. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Epic
proper noun
style
novel
47. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
compound complex sentence
Dialect
fairy tale
Diction
48. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Maya Angelou
Herman Melville
Characterization
adverb
49. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
paradox
couplet
passive verb
Maya Angelou
50. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
adjective
proper noun
Ray Bradbury
British Romantics