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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. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
free verse
Cliche
appeal to authority
Jane Austen
2. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
Langston Hughes
Mark Twain
creative
3. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
style
setting
extended metaphor
hyperbole
4. A word that takes the place of a noun
Modeling
appositive
pronoun
participial
5. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
metaphor
Zora Neale Hurston
exclamatory sentence
Irony
6. Word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence. Examples: in - under - near - behind - to - from - over
active verb
preposition
compound complex sentence
Imagery
7. A sad or mournful poem
elegy
George Herbert
Characterization
present tense verb
8. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
active verb
compound complex sentence
mystery
Mary Shelley
9. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
myth
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Allusion
extended metaphor
10. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
adjective
homophone
John Keats
compound sentence
11. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
declarative sentence
passive verb
mood
Diction
12. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
sentence fragment
adverb
personification
metonymy
13. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
compound complex sentence
Henry David Thoreau
John Donne
setting
14. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
sonnet
Antecedent
historical fiction
Dialect
15. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Analogy
adverb
compound sentence
Ray Bradbury
16. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Activating Prior Knowledge
couplet
imperative sentence
Henry David Thoreau
17. 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
J.R.R. Tolkein
declarative sentence
appeal to authority
setting
18. 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'
Subject Verb Agreement
John Keats
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allan Poe
19. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Irony
synecdoche
homophone
mood
20. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
personification
Transcendentalism
historical fiction
future perfect verb
21. A worn - out idea or overused expression
prepositional phrase
Cliche
future perfect verb
haiku
22. A following of one thing after another in time
harlem renaissance
haiku
chronological sequence
mood
23. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
exclamatory sentence
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
24. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
J.R.R. Tolkein
exclamatory sentence
complex sentence
homophone
25. 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
spatial sequence
couplet
Langston Hughes
active verb
26. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
John Donne
Irony
cause and effect
apostrophe
27. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
George Herbert
exclamatory sentence
William Shakespeare
cause and effect
28. Original and imaginative
Dialect
creative
Langston Hughes
infinitive
29. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
sonnet
proper noun
Antecedent
short story
30. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
sonnet
personification
Edgar Allan Poe
science fiction
31. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Participle
spatial sequence
couplet
Simile
32. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Scaffolding
Epic
Walt Whitman
Dialect
33. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
symbolism
personification
cause and effect
34. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Simile
novel
legend
Ray Bradbury
35. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
limerick
George Orwell
sentence fragment
36. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Stephen Crane
George Orwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
37. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
metaphor
Modeling
interrogative sentence
apostrophe
38. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
apostrophe
bar graph
J.R.R. Tolkein
conjunction
39. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
simple sentence
line graph
Countee Cullen
40. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Questioning
Scaffolding
style
Allusion
41. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
Characterization
symbolism
fable
historical fiction
42. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
appeal to emotion
participial
Subject Verb Agreement
Mary Shelley
43. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Transcendentalism
Foreshadowing
persuasive
Percy Bysshe Shelley
44. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
sentence fragment
Activating Prior Knowledge
Building Metacognition
appeal to emotion
45. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Mark Twain
symbol
common noun
Allusion
46. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
appeal to authority
Alice Walker
past tense verb
independent clause
47. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
past tense verb
Questioning
future perfect verb
48. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
participial
Epic
Jane Austen
appositive
49. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
Cliche
Maya Angelou
Antecedent
present perfect verb
50. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Simile
Dialect
Analogy
apostrophe