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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Modeling
short story
Antecedent
Anne Frank
2. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Characterization
past perfect verb
short story
3. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Questioning
hyperbole
Herman Melville
fable
4. 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).
Edgar Allan Poe
Dialect
historical fiction
Foreshadowing
5. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
mystery
declarative sentence
Epic
6. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
novel
Irony
participial
7. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Analogy
free verse
myth
appositive
8. 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.
style
Cliche
appositive
haiku
9. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
folk tale
appeal to emotion
compound sentence
Amy Tan
10. verb that can be used as an adjective
Building Metacognition
Countee Cullen
participial
setting
11. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
common noun
synecdoche
Percy Bysshe Shelley
sentence fragment
12. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jane Austen
line graph
Alice Walker
13. 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
interrogative sentence
Willa Cather
J.R.R. Tolkein
C. S. Lewis
14. A sentence that asks a question
folk tale
setting
interrogative sentence
adjective
15. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
William Shakespeare
Analogy
Allusion
participial
16. 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
J. D. Salinger
interrogative sentence
Anne Frank
17. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
allegory
Modeling
Scaffolding
Antecedent
18. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
novel
Anne Frank
line graph
expository
19. 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
compare and contrast
British Romantics
passive verb
cause and effect
20. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
appeal to authority
compare and contrast
Activating Prior Knowledge
future perfect verb
21. American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil - disobedience when he refused to pay the toll - tax to support him Mexican War; wrote 'Walden'
myth
Henry David Thoreau
creative
pronoun
22. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
compound sentence
participial
Imagery
historical fiction
23. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
adverb
free verse
Foreshadowing
George Orwell
24. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
passive verb
legend
Scaffolding
Maya Angelou
25. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
compound sentence
personification
hyperbole
historical fiction
26. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Modeling
tone
Andrew Marvell
apostrophe
27. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
Alliteration
preposition
fairy tale
F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
free verse
Diction
proper noun
Metaphysical poets
29. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
compare and contrast
personification
Herman Melville
mystery
30. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Participle
Walt Whitman
George Orwell
present perfect verb
31. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
Modeling
British Romantics
Questioning
synecdoche
32. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
fairy tale
metonymy
adverb
folk tale
33. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
extended metaphor
Analogy
couplet
simple sentence
34. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
Dialect
pie chart
noun
active verb
35. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
couplet
allegory
Stephen Crane
36. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
metonymy
George Herbert
Participle
expository
37. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
Subject Verb Agreement
Stephen Crane
complex sentence
Percy Bysshe Shelley
38. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
exclamatory sentence
Harper Lee
active verb
harlem renaissance
39. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Amy Tan
synecdoche
persuasive
mystery
40. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
compound complex sentence
fable
Transcendentalism
Mary Shelley
41. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
spatial sequence
historical fiction
pie chart
noun
42. 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
Antecedent
tone
Walt Whitman
Andrew Marvell
43. 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
Transcendentalism
common noun
Allusion
Participle
44. 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'
myth
hyperbole
William Shakespeare
Simile
45. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
Edgar Allan Poe
Maya Angelou
appeal to authority
myth
46. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
noun
prepositional phrase
George Herbert
folk tale
47. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
extended metaphor
present perfect verb
Andrew Marvell
present tense verb
48. Expresses action or state of being
verb
Questioning
complex sentence
Diction
49. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
present tense verb
adverb
Metaphysical poets
Henry David Thoreau
50. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
Andrew Marvell
point of view
bar graph
Edgar Allan Poe