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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot






2. 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'






3. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)






4. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)






5. 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






6. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun






7. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)






8. A verb that tells that something is happening now.






9. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action






10. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer






11. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






12. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished






13. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time






14. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb






15. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea






16. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning






17. 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






18. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole






19. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect






20. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions






21. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings






22. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought






23. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation






24. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa






25. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events






26. A major form of Japanese verse - written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5 - 7 - and 5 syllables - and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons - often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.






27. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.






28. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)






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






30. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause






31. 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.






32. Word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence. Examples: in - under - near - behind - to - from - over






33. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses






34. 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






35. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future






36. 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






37. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art






38. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age






39. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark






40. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective






41. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'






42. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)






43. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






47. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses






48. 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






49. A sentence that asks a question






50. 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