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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
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
pronoun
British Romantics
Henry David Thoreau
Antecedent
2. Original and imaginative
simple sentence
creative
pronoun
elegy
3. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
hyperbole
Antecedent
simple sentence
personification
4. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
verb
Emily Dickinson
sentence fragment
5. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Countee Cullen
style
couplet
extended metaphor
6. 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
persuasive
spatial sequence
compound sentence
7. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
compare and contrast
interrogative sentence
Alliteration
Mary Shelley
8. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
short story
Allusion
noun
9. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Herman Melville
Ray Bradbury
common noun
Jane Austen
10. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
paradox
legend
complex sentence
11. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
persuasive
Subject Verb Agreement
novel
mood
12. Two consecutive rhyming lines
sonnet
couplet
paradox
hyperbole
13. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
Alliteration
Mary Shelley
John Keats
14. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
free verse
Anne Frank
John Donne
mystery
15. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Subject Verb Agreement
free verse
Allusion
personification
16. 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'
setting
Ralph Waldo Emerson
active verb
Henry David Thoreau
17. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
proper noun
cause and effect
collective noun
fable
18. Expresses action or state of being
verb
Andrew Marvell
past tense verb
Analogy
19. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
haiku
Dialect
allegory
Modeling
20. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Epic
present tense verb
metonymy
haiku
21. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Diction
Harper Lee
Activating Prior Knowledge
Mark Twain
22. 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
Characterization
Zora Neale Hurston
limerick
conjunction
23. 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'
appeal to emotion
Robert Frost
metonymy
folk tale
24. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Amy Tan
persuasive
haiku
Participle
25. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
proper noun
metonymy
preposition
Allusion
26. A sentence that requests or commands
Percy Bysshe Shelley
imperative sentence
noun
present tense verb
27. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
compound sentence
pie chart
common noun
compare and contrast
28. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
apostrophe
historical fiction
line graph
British Romantics
29. helping students to achieve independence in reading by first giving support and then gradually taking it away as students are ready to do the tasks on their own
Scaffolding
Simile
creative
appeal to authority
30. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
collective noun
dependent clause
Participle
31. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
collective noun
extended metaphor
point of view
sonnet
32. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
cause and effect
Andrew Marvell
Transcendentalism
Building Metacognition
33. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
exclamatory sentence
pronoun
line graph
symbol
34. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
collective noun
mood
John Donne
35. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Foreshadowing
myth
homophone
Epic
36. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
J. D. Salinger
noun
compound complex sentence
Zora Neale Hurston
37. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Mark Twain
science fiction
Cliche
future perfect verb
38. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Participle
Irony
fairy tale
John Donne
39. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
sentence fragment
Harper Lee
Building Metacognition
persuasive
40. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Maya Angelou
John Keats
George Orwell
Simile
41. A sentence that asks a question
Zora Neale Hurston
legend
interrogative sentence
mystery
42. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
historical fiction
voice
Simile
Jane Austen
43. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
Henry David Thoreau
simple sentence
mood
noun
44. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
Willa Cather
active verb
homophone
symbol
45. 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
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
British Romantics
George Herbert
46. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Herman Melville
spatial sequence
symbolism
compound sentence
47. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
John Keats
tone
Building Metacognition
Irony
48. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
creative
harlem renaissance
noun
Allusion
49. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Subject Verb Agreement
adjective
participial
Activating Prior Knowledge
50. 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
chronological sequence
Metaphysical poets
proper noun
allegory