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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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1. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
Modeling
expository
Edgar Allan Poe
simple sentence
2. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Harper Lee
J. D. Salinger
Herman Melville
conjunction
3. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
conjunction
complex sentence
compare and contrast
apostrophe
4. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Building Metacognition
present tense verb
future perfect verb
symbolism
5. 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
preposition
Analogy
free verse
legend
6. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
Modeling
compound complex sentence
cause and effect
bar graph
7. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
declarative sentence
novel
Metaphysical poets
style
8. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Characterization
extended metaphor
legend
paradox
9. comparison not using like or as; a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
metaphor
John Keats
expository
compound complex sentence
10. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
past perfect verb
George Herbert
appeal to authority
Langston Hughes
11. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Antecedent
adjective
compare and contrast
12. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
J.R.R. Tolkein
declarative sentence
Antecedent
appositive
13. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Activating Prior Knowledge
conjunction
cause and effect
extended metaphor
14. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Stephen Crane
novel
C. S. Lewis
Imagery
15. 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
line graph
creative
Ray Bradbury
16. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
collective noun
fairy tale
expository
synecdoche
17. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
couplet
metonymy
participial
Andrew Marvell
18. 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
Countee Cullen
point of view
Simile
novel
19. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
bar graph
Transcendentalism
Stephen Crane
Percy Bysshe Shelley
20. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
creative
point of view
active verb
preposition
21. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Jane Austen
bar graph
persuasive
synecdoche
22. 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
tone
future perfect verb
J.R.R. Tolkein
Edgar Allan Poe
23. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
short story
past tense verb
Langston Hughes
prepositional phrase
24. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
Modeling
George Herbert
Diction
Characterization
25. A word that takes the place of a noun
couplet
Questioning
pronoun
free verse
26. A phrase beginning with a preposition
John Keats
prepositional phrase
exclamatory sentence
Dialect
27. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Herman Melville
Alliteration
harlem renaissance
Henry David Thoreau
28. Extreme exaggeration
Building Metacognition
mood
hyperbole
couplet
29. 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
creative
British Romantics
J. D. Salinger
complex sentence
30. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
common noun
appeal to emotion
Epic
participial
31. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
novel
Harper Lee
myth
C. S. Lewis
32. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
exclamatory sentence
Epic
personification
33. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Ray Bradbury
metonymy
line graph
science fiction
34. 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'
persuasive
free verse
William Shakespeare
John Donne
35. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
fable
J.R.R. Tolkein
Epic
complex sentence
36. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Emily Dickinson
appositive
past tense verb
Alliteration
37. 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
C. S. Lewis
participial
compare and contrast
active verb
38. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Characterization
line graph
Subject Verb Agreement
39. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Diction
Willa Cather
setting
adjective
40. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
bar graph
C. S. Lewis
Robert Frost
John Keats
41. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
John Keats
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Shelley
John Keats
42. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
synecdoche
Alliteration
allegory
past perfect verb
43. 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
dependent clause
sentence fragment
passive verb
infinitive
44. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
homophone
short story
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
45. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
past perfect verb
complex sentence
Epic
cause and effect
46. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
noun
mood
present tense verb
dependent clause
47. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
mystery
Analogy
Ray Bradbury
John Donne
48. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
setting
Harper Lee
Emily Dickinson
symbol
49. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagery
Henry David Thoreau
style
50. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
interrogative sentence
John Keats
Irony
metaphor