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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. 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
compound complex sentence
C. S. Lewis
John Keats
proper noun
2. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
verb
Simile
simple sentence
Characterization
3. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
past perfect verb
Subject Verb Agreement
declarative sentence
symbolism
4. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
Subject Verb Agreement
personification
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Shelley
5. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
future perfect verb
sonnet
novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
British Romantics
complex sentence
mood
7. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
exclamatory sentence
Building Metacognition
personification
noun
8. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
hyperbole
science fiction
common noun
Anne Frank
9. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
voice
mood
sonnet
creative
10. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
British Romantics
Questioning
collective noun
Participle
11. A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century - who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them; favored intellect over emotions
Metaphysical poets
Stephen Crane
sentence fragment
John Keats
12. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Diction
adjective
Herman Melville
compound sentence
13. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
mood
Questioning
Participle
line graph
14. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
symbolism
John Keats
Alice Walker
15. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
pie chart
Alliteration
Dialect
limerick
16. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
verb
point of view
British Romantics
Diction
17. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialect
Anne Frank
sonnet
chronological sequence
18. A following of one thing after another in time
Andrew Marvell
pronoun
John Keats
chronological sequence
19. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
allegory
myth
Anne Frank
20. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
Stephen Crane
Countee Cullen
Antecedent
21. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
complex sentence
George Orwell
British Romantics
interrogative sentence
22. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963); 'The Road Not Taken' 'Fire and Ice' 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
point of view
free verse
Modeling
Robert Frost
23. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Foreshadowing
Ralph Waldo Emerson
limerick
science fiction
24. verb that can be used as an adjective
Willa Cather
allegory
participial
synecdoche
25. American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature - as demonstrated in his book - Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writi
Walt Whitman
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Participle
couplet
26. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
simple sentence
legend
past perfect verb
folk tale
27. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
tone
John Keats
creative
harlem renaissance
28. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Antecedent
Cliche
Countee Cullen
adjective
29. 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
Mark Twain
Countee Cullen
metaphor
Zora Neale Hurston
30. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
free verse
Jane Austen
collective noun
fable
31. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Transcendentalism
Questioning
short story
expository
32. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Irony
Stephen Crane
Foreshadowing
Harper Lee
33. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
personification
British Romantics
Activating Prior Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau
34. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
common noun
appositive
Edgar Allan Poe
past perfect verb
35. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
hyperbole
Modeling
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Activating Prior Knowledge
36. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
adverb
active verb
haiku
pronoun
37. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Metaphysical poets
preposition
appositive
J.R.R. Tolkein
38. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Activating Prior Knowledge
passive verb
historical fiction
paradox
39. 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'
novel
appeal to emotion
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Activating Prior Knowledge
40. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
infinitive
Simile
John Keats
Stephen Crane
41. A sentence that asks a question
interrogative sentence
Maya Angelou
present tense verb
Questioning
42. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
prepositional phrase
Analogy
novel
Zora Neale Hurston
43. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
homophone
metonymy
Edgar Allan Poe
complex sentence
44. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
Maya Angelou
Characterization
limerick
45. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
Amy Tan
expository
present tense verb
Robert Frost
46. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
symbol
Harper Lee
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
47. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
dependent clause
science fiction
exclamatory sentence
folk tale
48. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
Willa Cather
present perfect verb
harlem renaissance
49. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
cause and effect
Analogy
limerick
voice
50. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
George Orwell
mood
novel
Modeling