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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. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Antecedent
haiku
Maya Angelou
fable
2. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
Stephen Crane
past perfect verb
personification
hyperbole
3. A sad or mournful poem
compare and contrast
Imagery
elegy
historical fiction
4. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
elegy
Antecedent
George Herbert
complex sentence
5. A word that takes the place of a noun
pronoun
Andrew Marvell
fable
legend
6. 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'
Willa Cather
Ralph Waldo Emerson
conjunction
point of view
7. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
couplet
Mary Shelley
tone
independent clause
8. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
historical fiction
symbolism
free verse
Allusion
9. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
creative
Questioning
Irony
line graph
10. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
Participle
appositive
spatial sequence
11. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
harlem renaissance
haiku
Ralph Waldo Emerson
compare and contrast
12. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
complex sentence
Building Metacognition
metonymy
13. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
William Shakespeare
future perfect verb
creative
compound complex sentence
14. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
legend
symbolism
personification
15. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
free verse
participial
John Keats
cause and effect
16. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
symbolism
C. S. Lewis
homophone
future perfect verb
17. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Jane Austen
fable
apostrophe
George Orwell
18. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
legend
appositive
couplet
creative
19. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
couplet
historical fiction
mood
Scaffolding
20. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
novel
Mark Twain
simple sentence
metonymy
21. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
setting
Herman Melville
exclamatory sentence
John Donne
22. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Building Metacognition
John Keats
personification
compare and contrast
23. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
bar graph
Langston Hughes
spatial sequence
simple sentence
24. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
Maya Angelou
synecdoche
couplet
exclamatory sentence
25. Expresses action or state of being
present perfect verb
verb
Diction
metaphor
26. 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
Epic
Langston Hughes
novel
simple sentence
27. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Modeling
point of view
past perfect verb
mystery
28. 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
independent clause
infinitive
metaphor
extended metaphor
29. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
metaphor
George Orwell
folk tale
Questioning
30. 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
limerick
conjunction
Maya Angelou
Imagery
31. 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
John Keats
symbol
J.R.R. Tolkein
bar graph
32. 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
Cliche
Antecedent
preposition
verb
33. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
J. D. Salinger
paradox
Modeling
34. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
harlem renaissance
Foreshadowing
participial
35. A phrase beginning with a preposition
Modeling
pie chart
Alliteration
prepositional phrase
36. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
paradox
interrogative sentence
homophone
37. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
Zora Neale Hurston
fable
F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
persuasive
symbol
verb
free verse
39. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
participial
Characterization
mood
limerick
40. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
mood
cause and effect
voice
Ray Bradbury
41. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Countee Cullen
Cliche
Maya Angelou
active verb
42. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
cause and effect
Percy Bysshe Shelley
fairy tale
mystery
43. 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.
simple sentence
allegory
haiku
interrogative sentence
44. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Epic
John Donne
metonymy
45. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
Characterization
mood
sentence fragment
Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. 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
science fiction
noun
Activating Prior Knowledge
47. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
style
Metaphysical poets
creative
48. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
Epic
Jane Austen
present tense verb
George Herbert
49. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
point of view
novel
J. D. Salinger
adverb
50. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
metaphor
proper noun
Anne Frank
imperative sentence