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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. Expresses action or state of being
allegory
verb
line graph
Countee Cullen
2. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Alliteration
myth
Foreshadowing
haiku
3. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
common noun
Andrew Marvell
C. S. Lewis
4. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Robert Frost
folk tale
historical fiction
science fiction
5. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
simple sentence
preposition
participial
present tense verb
6. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
present tense verb
active verb
historical fiction
prepositional phrase
7. 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
allegory
Scaffolding
simple sentence
adjective
8. A sad or mournful poem
collective noun
hyperbole
pie chart
elegy
9. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
simple sentence
compound complex sentence
Irony
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Mark Twain
simple sentence
myth
Alliteration
11. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
extended metaphor
folk tale
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Activating Prior Knowledge
12. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
myth
appeal to emotion
complex sentence
symbol
13. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
F. Scott Fitzgerald
mood
expository
voice
14. 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'
Questioning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Building Metacognition
short story
15. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
Allusion
sentence fragment
John Keats
preposition
16. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
verb
exclamatory sentence
Antecedent
J. D. Salinger
17. 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
John Keats
complex sentence
limerick
Percy Bysshe Shelley
18. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
John Keats
Subject Verb Agreement
Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Walker
19. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
folk tale
passive verb
exclamatory sentence
proper noun
20. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
chronological sequence
expository
Walt Whitman
voice
21. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
conjunction
legend
past tense verb
elegy
22. A worn - out idea or overused expression
J. D. Salinger
Cliche
Edgar Allan Poe
William Shakespeare
23. verb that can be used as an adjective
participial
mystery
present tense verb
metonymy
24. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
Imagery
short story
verb
25. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
haiku
Mary Shelley
adjective
Alliteration
26. 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
present perfect verb
J. D. Salinger
Ray Bradbury
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
Participle
imperative sentence
Building Metacognition
symbolism
28. 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
chronological sequence
present tense verb
line graph
29. 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
past perfect verb
independent clause
John Keats
George Orwell
30. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
metaphor
novel
cause and effect
Activating Prior Knowledge
31. 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
Emily Dickinson
infinitive
Jane Austen
synecdoche
32. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
Robert Frost
expository
hyperbole
adjective
33. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
Amy Tan
limerick
setting
34. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
declarative sentence
sonnet
cause and effect
hyperbole
35. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
allegory
Ralph Waldo Emerson
style
interrogative sentence
36. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
creative
science fiction
Zora Neale Hurston
Allusion
37. A sentence that asks a question
future perfect verb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
interrogative sentence
folk tale
38. 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
Transcendentalism
Herman Melville
noun
Cliche
39. A phrase beginning with a preposition
pronoun
Mark Twain
George Orwell
prepositional phrase
40. 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
paradox
John Keats
setting
Amy Tan
41. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
metonymy
Questioning
haiku
compound complex sentence
42. A word that takes the place of a noun
setting
adjective
Cliche
pronoun
43. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
preposition
compound complex sentence
exclamatory sentence
metaphor
44. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
legend
setting
Henry David Thoreau
Characterization
45. A following of one thing after another in time
chronological sequence
conjunction
past tense verb
legend
46. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Stephen Crane
Subject Verb Agreement
homophone
George Orwell
47. 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
Dialect
Langston Hughes
Andrew Marvell
short story
48. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
dependent clause
Metaphysical poets
Imagery
personification
49. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Emily Dickinson
Countee Cullen
pie chart
spatial sequence
50. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
homophone
mood
fable
common noun