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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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 Donne
setting
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
2. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
symbolism
Emily Dickinson
William Shakespeare
Ray Bradbury
3. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
collective noun
mood
simple sentence
John Keats
4. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
expository
Metaphysical poets
Mark Twain
Scaffolding
5. 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'
Subject Verb Agreement
compound sentence
Henry David Thoreau
prepositional phrase
6. Expresses action or state of being
style
John Keats
George Orwell
verb
7. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Scaffolding
William Shakespeare
couplet
participial
8. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
personification
appeal to authority
common noun
historical fiction
9. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
J.R.R. Tolkein
expository
Questioning
preposition
10. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
compare and contrast
Metaphysical poets
active verb
Antecedent
11. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
myth
Epic
Questioning
passive verb
12. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
interrogative sentence
infinitive
metaphor
Herman Melville
13. 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
synecdoche
extended metaphor
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
14. A phrase beginning with a preposition
present perfect verb
John Donne
prepositional phrase
declarative sentence
15. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Building Metacognition
mood
Zora Neale Hurston
Cliche
16. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Metaphysical poets
symbolism
metonymy
myth
17. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Antecedent
present perfect verb
limerick
participial
18. 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
adjective
compare and contrast
extended metaphor
19. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
persuasive
paradox
appositive
dependent clause
20. One of the British Romantics expelled from school for advocating atheism and set out to reform the world. Prometheus Unbound (1820) was a portrait of the revolt of human beings against the laws and customs that oppressed them.
exclamatory sentence
fairy tale
Percy Bysshe Shelley
preposition
21. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
J. D. Salinger
creative
Anne Frank
Alice Walker
22. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
symbolism
folk tale
short story
noun
23. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
George Orwell
Characterization
point of view
24. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
collective noun
cause and effect
Ray Bradbury
25. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
simple sentence
participial
harlem renaissance
voice
26. 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
fable
metaphor
elegy
Activating Prior Knowledge
27. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Participle
prepositional phrase
Alliteration
appositive
28. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
participial
Percy Bysshe Shelley
future perfect verb
synecdoche
29. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
preposition
metaphor
William Shakespeare
30. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
appositive
Langston Hughes
synecdoche
conjunction
31. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
Stephen Crane
spatial sequence
Mary Shelley
future perfect verb
32. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
Langston Hughes
active verb
Simile
33. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Mark Twain
Participle
simple sentence
metaphor
34. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
elegy
historical fiction
Activating Prior Knowledge
Epic
35. 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'
proper noun
Ralph Waldo Emerson
chronological sequence
John Donne
36. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
independent clause
allegory
extended metaphor
style
37. 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
personification
Scaffolding
appositive
Harper Lee
38. 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
William Shakespeare
apostrophe
British Romantics
Metaphysical poets
39. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
style
Dialect
40. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
John Keats
compare and contrast
Maya Angelou
cause and effect
41. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
voice
Stephen Crane
Walt Whitman
paradox
42. 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
cause and effect
Percy Bysshe Shelley
limerick
historical fiction
43. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
present perfect verb
limerick
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
44. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
compound complex sentence
legend
conjunction
Mary Shelley
45. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
complex sentence
mystery
past tense verb
Alice Walker
46. 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
myth
Anne Frank
Characterization
Langston Hughes
47. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
myth
Amy Tan
Jane Austen
J. D. Salinger
48. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
Emily Dickinson
point of view
sentence fragment
49. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
Stephen Crane
expository
exclamatory sentence
50. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Edgar Allan Poe
Alliteration
George Orwell
noun