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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. Expresses action or state of being
verb
symbolism
past perfect verb
Epic
2. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
John Keats
Herman Melville
Dialect
Irony
3. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Modeling
point of view
participial
allegory
4. 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
past perfect verb
J.R.R. Tolkein
voice
paradox
5. A word that takes the place of a noun
mood
preposition
J. D. Salinger
pronoun
6. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
present tense verb
folk tale
Irony
symbol
7. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
present perfect verb
hyperbole
British Romantics
legend
8. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Metaphysical poets
John Donne
free verse
appeal to emotion
9. 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
legend
conjunction
Emily Dickinson
dependent clause
10. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Mary Shelley
limerick
George Herbert
fable
11. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
style
Mary Shelley
compound complex sentence
adverb
12. 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
Stephen Crane
John Keats
fairy tale
creative
13. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
John Donne
short story
Analogy
allegory
14. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
Stephen Crane
15. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Simile
Langston Hughes
fairy tale
legend
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.
fairy tale
Percy Bysshe Shelley
noun
Herman Melville
17. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson
present perfect verb
infinitive
Antecedent
18. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
Scaffolding
independent clause
Alice Walker
Amy Tan
19. 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'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
paradox
Langston Hughes
appeal to emotion
20. 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.
John Donne
Characterization
haiku
complex sentence
21. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
passive verb
adverb
infinitive
sonnet
22. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
Analogy
Antecedent
complex sentence
Imagery
23. A following of one thing after another in time
hyperbole
John Keats
chronological sequence
appeal to authority
24. American gothic writer known especially for his macabre poems - such as 'The Raven' (1845) - and short stories - including 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1839).
Edgar Allan Poe
legend
future perfect verb
interrogative sentence
25. 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
exclamatory sentence
fable
Transcendentalism
metonymy
26. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
expository
Alliteration
declarative sentence
chronological sequence
27. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
noun
John Donne
symbol
28. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
chronological sequence
Mark Twain
complex sentence
future perfect verb
29. 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
free verse
setting
myth
30. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
allegory
declarative sentence
George Orwell
synecdoche
31. 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
participial
Stephen Crane
Percy Bysshe Shelley
symbol
32. 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
appeal to emotion
proper noun
infinitive
hyperbole
33. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
persuasive
participial
line graph
Foreshadowing
34. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
harlem renaissance
Diction
symbolism
persuasive
35. 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
apostrophe
synecdoche
C. S. Lewis
appeal to authority
36. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Harper Lee
Characterization
mood
sonnet
37. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
Scaffolding
novel
style
38. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
sonnet
fairy tale
John Donne
Anne Frank
39. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
adjective
couplet
cause and effect
infinitive
40. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
complex sentence
metonymy
George Herbert
41. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
compound sentence
hyperbole
Diction
George Herbert
42. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
couplet
declarative sentence
proper noun
Transcendentalism
43. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
appeal to emotion
George Herbert
couplet
Imagery
44. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry David Thoreau
Ray Bradbury
John Keats
45. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
past perfect verb
novel
present tense verb
Activating Prior Knowledge
46. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
fable
compound sentence
line graph
47. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
fairy tale
style
Activating Prior Knowledge
future perfect verb
48. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
persuasive
independent clause
sonnet
Participle
49. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Mary Shelley
participial
adverb
noun
50. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Ray Bradbury
Langston Hughes
folk tale
declarative sentence