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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. 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
British Romantics
Jane Austen
Irony
compare and contrast
2. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
limerick
compound sentence
Participle
cause and effect
3. 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
imperative sentence
Cliche
noun
4. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
appeal to emotion
Simile
Langston Hughes
pronoun
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
limerick
homophone
Herman Melville
infinitive
6. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
John Keats
active verb
haiku
Modeling
7. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Activating Prior Knowledge
Alice Walker
personification
imperative sentence
8. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Metaphysical poets
extended metaphor
personification
limerick
9. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dialect
infinitive
exclamatory sentence
10. A sentence that requests or commands
John Keats
imperative sentence
Transcendentalism
Alice Walker
11. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
cause and effect
Epic
bar graph
Anne Frank
12. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
Andrew Marvell
Characterization
paradox
13. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
George Orwell
Building Metacognition
Alliteration
Questioning
14. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
exclamatory sentence
Scaffolding
mood
Activating Prior Knowledge
15. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
British Romantics
Modeling
chronological sequence
dependent clause
16. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
creative
adjective
J. D. Salinger
Harper Lee
17. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
creative
novel
Mary Shelley
simple sentence
18. 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
expository
bar graph
Allusion
19. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Epic
mystery
homophone
appeal to authority
20. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Subject Verb Agreement
symbolism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
present tense verb
21. 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
line graph
J.R.R. Tolkein
metaphor
mood
22. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
exclamatory sentence
adjective
F. Scott Fitzgerald
future perfect verb
23. A sad or mournful poem
independent clause
elegy
couplet
point of view
24. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
verb
Maya Angelou
creative
Emily Dickinson
25. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Herman Melville
Mary Shelley
John Keats
paradox
26. 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
spatial sequence
Modeling
folk tale
Countee Cullen
27. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Countee Cullen
Antecedent
extended metaphor
Emily Dickinson
28. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
Willa Cather
free verse
compare and contrast
29. verb that can be used as an adjective
legend
exclamatory sentence
participial
verb
30. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
past perfect verb
Willa Cather
Simile
Mark Twain
31. 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
point of view
Walt Whitman
dependent clause
compare and contrast
32. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Countee Cullen
voice
sonnet
Ray Bradbury
33. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
expository
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alliteration
short story
34. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
Allusion
folk tale
Herman Melville
35. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
haiku
George Herbert
interrogative sentence
appositive
36. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
Subject Verb Agreement
Antecedent
participial
fairy tale
37. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
John Keats
Willa Cather
Andrew Marvell
preposition
38. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
Emily Dickinson
limerick
voice
setting
39. 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'
style
Building Metacognition
pie chart
Henry David Thoreau
40. 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
Willa Cather
tone
setting
41. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
mood
Irony
John Keats
prepositional phrase
42. 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
George Herbert
historical fiction
adverb
John Keats
43. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
science fiction
preposition
Stephen Crane
Analogy
44. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
George Orwell
appeal to authority
Imagery
Participle
45. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
free verse
legend
Dialect
independent clause
46. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Characterization
Foreshadowing
appositive
47. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
exclamatory sentence
Building Metacognition
noun
common noun
48. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
Mary Shelley
line graph
homophone
49. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
Jane Austen
declarative sentence
proper noun
simple sentence
50. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
declarative sentence
sonnet
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Herman Melville