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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. 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
dependent clause
appeal to emotion
George Orwell
Willa Cather
2. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
expository
harlem renaissance
Henry David Thoreau
John Keats
3. Two consecutive rhyming lines
metonymy
couplet
Harper Lee
Mary Shelley
4. 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
past perfect verb
Emily Dickinson
point of view
C. S. Lewis
5. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
historical fiction
Amy Tan
mystery
Simile
6. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialect
personification
symbolism
William Shakespeare
7. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
appeal to authority
J. D. Salinger
future perfect verb
Jane Austen
8. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Scaffolding
pie chart
J.R.R. Tolkein
style
9. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
voice
sentence fragment
Questioning
mystery
10. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
dependent clause
John Keats
mood
harlem renaissance
11. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
myth
independent clause
passive verb
folk tale
12. Expresses action or state of being
verb
interrogative sentence
present tense verb
Harper Lee
13. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
point of view
Anne Frank
compound complex sentence
short story
14. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
J. D. Salinger
fairy tale
appeal to emotion
pronoun
15. A phrase beginning with a preposition
Dialect
present perfect verb
prepositional phrase
tone
16. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
persuasive
expository
novel
Building Metacognition
17. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Foreshadowing
Mark Twain
Characterization
Questioning
18. 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
Questioning
Walt Whitman
present perfect verb
Activating Prior Knowledge
19. 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
metaphor
creative
symbolism
mystery
20. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
independent clause
sonnet
Activating Prior Knowledge
Maya Angelou
21. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Antecedent
Foreshadowing
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Edgar Allan Poe
22. 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
pronoun
limerick
Henry David Thoreau
C. S. Lewis
23. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
C. S. Lewis
independent clause
compound complex sentence
adverb
24. A word that takes the place of a noun
pronoun
Questioning
Mark Twain
Imagery
25. 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
setting
Emily Dickinson
Building Metacognition
26. 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
John Keats
cause and effect
harlem renaissance
Characterization
27. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
proper noun
Characterization
Simile
28. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Imagery
Robert Frost
common noun
Irony
29. 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
Stephen Crane
preposition
mystery
George Orwell
30. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
future perfect verb
setting
fairy tale
participial
31. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
Dialect
Langston Hughes
harlem renaissance
32. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
preposition
past tense verb
infinitive
homophone
33. A sentence that asks a question
Anne Frank
voice
interrogative sentence
extended metaphor
34. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
noun
haiku
Subject Verb Agreement
appositive
35. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
past perfect verb
John Keats
Participle
John Keats
36. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Transcendentalism
participial
Foreshadowing
John Donne
37. 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
George Orwell
C. S. Lewis
legend
past perfect verb
38. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
present perfect verb
line graph
expository
extended metaphor
39. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Imagery
Activating Prior Knowledge
science fiction
bar graph
40. 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
pie chart
Metaphysical poets
Robert Frost
passive verb
41. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
Ray Bradbury
adjective
voice
haiku
42. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
homophone
Imagery
Harper Lee
allegory
43. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
dependent clause
past tense verb
compound complex sentence
Willa Cather
44. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
compound complex sentence
voice
Percy Bysshe Shelley
sentence fragment
45. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
tone
Anne Frank
adverb
Epic
46. verb that can be used as an adjective
homophone
synecdoche
sonnet
participial
47. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
John Donne
Alice Walker
Allusion
extended metaphor
48. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
legend
Mary Shelley
Countee Cullen
participial
49. 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
Walt Whitman
Foreshadowing
Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
myth
compound complex sentence
Anne Frank
Henry David Thoreau