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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. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
British Romantics
common noun
tone
Andrew Marvell
2. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
common noun
Epic
metaphor
Harper Lee
3. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Antecedent
Robert Frost
voice
legend
4. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
mystery
Emily Dickinson
setting
symbol
5. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
metonymy
Foreshadowing
sonnet
Participle
6. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
imperative sentence
Robert Frost
mood
novel
7. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
folk tale
complex sentence
expository
sonnet
8. 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
adjective
creative
compound complex sentence
9. Tell how things are alike and different
couplet
imperative sentence
legend
compare and contrast
10. Expresses action or state of being
Herman Melville
verb
voice
point of view
11. An English writer - poet - philologist - and university professor - best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit - The Lord of the Rings - and The Silmarillion
point of view
C. S. Lewis
Amy Tan
J.R.R. Tolkein
12. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
metonymy
voice
J. D. Salinger
infinitive
13. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963); 'The Road Not Taken' 'Fire and Ice' 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
Alice Walker
Robert Frost
exclamatory sentence
legend
14. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
J.R.R. Tolkein
limerick
expository
Stephen Crane
15. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
infinitive
mood
Subject Verb Agreement
John Donne
16. A phrase beginning with a preposition
prepositional phrase
Walt Whitman
hyperbole
novel
17. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
simple sentence
Questioning
harlem renaissance
symbol
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
prepositional phrase
C. S. Lewis
Imagery
Modeling
19. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
Characterization
noun
voice
persuasive
20. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
present tense verb
sonnet
historical fiction
folk tale
21. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
homophone
Irony
Maya Angelou
proper noun
22. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
prepositional phrase
limerick
common noun
Willa Cather
23. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
novel
Mary Shelley
Subject Verb Agreement
F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. A word that takes the place of a noun
Activating Prior Knowledge
verb
adjective
pronoun
25. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
appeal to authority
Zora Neale Hurston
future perfect verb
sentence fragment
26. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Langston Hughes
Building Metacognition
Imagery
allegory
27. 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'
William Shakespeare
Amy Tan
Analogy
past perfect verb
28. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
Imagery
Subject Verb Agreement
Walt Whitman
29. 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
metonymy
adjective
Countee Cullen
fable
30. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
present perfect verb
active verb
creative
31. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
haiku
participial
creative
32. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
appositive
noun
Alice Walker
novel
33. 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
fairy tale
Walt Whitman
John Keats
extended metaphor
34. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
tone
proper noun
infinitive
compound sentence
35. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
creative
Irony
Amy Tan
Building Metacognition
36. Extreme exaggeration
Willa Cather
hyperbole
Countee Cullen
pie chart
37. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
adverb
John Keats
compound sentence
Modeling
38. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
symbol
extended metaphor
Simile
point of view
39. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
proper noun
Harper Lee
Characterization
adverb
40. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
symbolism
adverb
Anne Frank
Diction
41. 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
metonymy
prepositional phrase
Emily Dickinson
Mary Shelley
42. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
expository
Percy Bysshe Shelley
past tense verb
synecdoche
43. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Mary Shelley
William Shakespeare
Metaphysical poets
John Donne
44. Two consecutive rhyming lines
persuasive
Ray Bradbury
Willa Cather
couplet
45. verb that can be used as an adjective
Simile
spatial sequence
participial
Zora Neale Hurston
46. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
setting
appeal to emotion
Subject Verb Agreement
harlem renaissance
47. A sentence that asks a question
myth
sentence fragment
interrogative sentence
style
48. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Building Metacognition
Metaphysical poets
Simile
science fiction
49. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
Langston Hughes
independent clause
past perfect verb
50. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
myth
style
Antecedent
Henry David Thoreau