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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. 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






2. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun






3. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern






4. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning






5. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind






6. A word that takes the place of a noun






7. 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






8. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another






9. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet






10. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany






11. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.






12. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea






13. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.






14. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds






15. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')






16. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage






17. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another






18. 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.






19. Extreme exaggeration






20. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.






21. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future






22. 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.






23. 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






24. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'






25. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)






26. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.






27. 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






28. 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'






29. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark






30. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities






31. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)






32. Methods a writer uses to develop characters






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






34. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'






35. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)






36. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story






37. Tell how things are alike and different






38. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






39. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions






40. 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






41. A following of one thing after another in time






42. 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






43. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action






44. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb






45. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole






46. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets






47. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work






48. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part






49. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)






50. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible