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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. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
science fiction
fable
George Orwell
style
2. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
independent clause
Jane Austen
exclamatory sentence
personification
3. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
paradox
prepositional phrase
persuasive
proper noun
4. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
J. D. Salinger
chronological sequence
interrogative sentence
Emily Dickinson
5. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Participle
preposition
science fiction
Scaffolding
6. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
William Shakespeare
C. S. Lewis
present perfect verb
prepositional phrase
7. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
creative
mood
science fiction
Edgar Allan Poe
8. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
haiku
Willa Cather
pie chart
John Keats
9. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
compound complex sentence
Subject Verb Agreement
mystery
Amy Tan
10. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
allegory
compound complex sentence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
imperative sentence
11. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
Scaffolding
Zora Neale Hurston
dependent clause
declarative sentence
12. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkein
Questioning
Percy Bysshe Shelley
George Orwell
13. An English writer - poet - philologist - and university professor - best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit - The Lord of the Rings - and The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkein
hyperbole
conjunction
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. A sad or mournful poem
Willa Cather
homophone
elegy
past perfect verb
15. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
historical fiction
Robert Frost
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amy Tan
16. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
J.R.R. Tolkein
myth
Anne Frank
Antecedent
17. 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
fable
Zora Neale Hurston
hyperbole
18. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
science fiction
personification
apostrophe
independent clause
19. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
prepositional phrase
common noun
proper noun
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. 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'
Irony
Walt Whitman
Alice Walker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
sonnet
participial
noun
Emily Dickinson
22. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Percy Bysshe Shelley
paradox
Alliteration
short story
23. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
mood
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dialect
Foreshadowing
24. A following of one thing after another in time
present perfect verb
chronological sequence
metaphor
Herman Melville
25. 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).
conjunction
Edgar Allan Poe
Andrew Marvell
Subject Verb Agreement
26. 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'
Maya Angelou
creative
Participle
Henry David Thoreau
27. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Robert Frost
present tense verb
personification
adverb
28. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
folk tale
tone
Harper Lee
creative
29. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
Amy Tan
Metaphysical poets
legend
point of view
30. 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
Alice Walker
British Romantics
Imagery
Scaffolding
31. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
verb
present tense verb
common noun
apostrophe
32. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
historical fiction
common noun
Transcendentalism
complex sentence
33. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
Modeling
symbolism
bar graph
Activating Prior Knowledge
34. 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
style
Epic
John Keats
allegory
35. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
short story
free verse
exclamatory sentence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
synecdoche
appeal to authority
novel
extended metaphor
37. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Maya Angelou
apostrophe
line graph
Ray Bradbury
38. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
synecdoche
metaphor
voice
homophone
39. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
past perfect verb
harlem renaissance
George Orwell
voice
40. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
harlem renaissance
cause and effect
participial
Andrew Marvell
41. 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
Robert Frost
Countee Cullen
C. S. Lewis
Questioning
42. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
fairy tale
adjective
F. Scott Fitzgerald
conjunction
43. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
symbol
Langston Hughes
compound complex sentence
appositive
44. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Andrew Marvell
Mary Shelley
symbol
Subject Verb Agreement
45. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
harlem renaissance
bar graph
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
46. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
exclamatory sentence
participial
Edgar Allan Poe
bar graph
47. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
extended metaphor
metonymy
Alliteration
Questioning
48. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
persuasive
49. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Robert Frost
Amy Tan
Irony
Willa Cather
50. 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
prepositional phrase
hyperbole
Langston Hughes
spatial sequence