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Praxis 2 English Literature
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1. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
Alliteration
declarative sentence
myth
symbol
2. 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'
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
symbol
bar graph
3. 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
fable
present perfect verb
infinitive
past tense verb
4. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
George Orwell
simple sentence
fable
science fiction
5. 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'
Willa Cather
historical fiction
pronoun
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. 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
fairy tale
Emily Dickinson
passive verb
prepositional phrase
7. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Andrew Marvell
noun
C. S. Lewis
future perfect verb
8. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Characterization
fable
Subject Verb Agreement
Emily Dickinson
9. 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
haiku
Subject Verb Agreement
Simile
10. A sentence that requests or commands
proper noun
Allusion
personification
imperative sentence
11. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialect
Epic
historical fiction
future perfect verb
12. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
infinitive
personification
Willa Cather
complex sentence
13. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
fairy tale
sentence fragment
tone
elegy
14. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
Countee Cullen
active verb
Mary Shelley
free verse
15. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
mood
pie chart
Irony
prepositional phrase
16. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
compound sentence
proper noun
pie chart
point of view
17. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
John Keats
metaphor
Epic
Subject Verb Agreement
18. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Andrew Marvell
Questioning
William Shakespeare
Countee Cullen
19. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
future perfect verb
Maya Angelou
chronological sequence
appeal to emotion
20. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
adjective
spatial sequence
Diction
21. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
John Donne
appositive
Jane Austen
22. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Subject Verb Agreement
Characterization
fable
myth
23. A word that takes the place of a noun
Walt Whitman
extended metaphor
Willa Cather
pronoun
24. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
compound complex sentence
appeal to authority
common noun
Building Metacognition
25. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
historical fiction
Building Metacognition
extended metaphor
Ray Bradbury
26. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
infinitive
compound complex sentence
independent clause
Edgar Allan Poe
27. A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century - who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them; favored intellect over emotions
future perfect verb
Metaphysical poets
spatial sequence
Epic
28. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
cause and effect
extended metaphor
line graph
compound complex sentence
29. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Robert Frost
appositive
symbol
Characterization
30. One of the British Romantics expelled from school for advocating atheism and set out to reform the world. Prometheus Unbound (1820) was a portrait of the revolt of human beings against the laws and customs that oppressed them.
compound complex sentence
adverb
past tense verb
Percy Bysshe Shelley
31. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
homophone
John Donne
Herman Melville
cause and effect
32. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
appeal to authority
Anne Frank
mood
complex sentence
33. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
Jane Austen
George Herbert
symbol
34. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
synecdoche
appositive
Ralph Waldo Emerson
pronoun
35. 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
Metaphysical poets
John Keats
simple sentence
compound complex sentence
36. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
style
Modeling
Emily Dickinson
fable
37. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Analogy
conjunction
limerick
38. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
sonnet
noun
folk tale
proper noun
39. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Participle
Allusion
prepositional phrase
compound sentence
40. Expresses action or state of being
verb
Amy Tan
science fiction
common noun
41. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
prepositional phrase
Mark Twain
Foreshadowing
science fiction
42. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
John Donne
past perfect verb
C. S. Lewis
apostrophe
43. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
voice
fairy tale
Harper Lee
adjective
44. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
George Herbert
Analogy
Mark Twain
imperative sentence
45. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
simple sentence
Epic
John Keats
46. 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
dependent clause
Analogy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
conjunction
47. Extreme exaggeration
historical fiction
J.R.R. Tolkein
present tense verb
hyperbole
48. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
appeal to emotion
fable
Maya Angelou
metonymy
49. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Countee Cullen
Imagery
present tense verb
active verb
50. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
line graph
declarative sentence
expository
Jane Austen
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