Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part






2. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb






3. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds






4. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time






5. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age






6. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)






7. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God






8. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)






9. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun






10. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage






11. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses






12. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'






13. 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






14. A sentence that asks a question






15. 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






16. 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






17. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief






18. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)






19. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'






20. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible






21. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.






22. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.






23. 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






24. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.






25. A verb that tells that something is happening now.






26. 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.






27. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring






28. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)






29. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective






30. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings






31. 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






32. 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






33. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities






34. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany






35. A short moral story (often with animal characters)






36. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)






37. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story






38. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






39. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.






40. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future






41. 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






42. Two consecutive rhyming lines






43. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action






44. names a particular person - place - thing or idea






45. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea






46. 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






47. A sad or mournful poem






48. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses






49. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction






50. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind