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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. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
fable
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Amy Tan
adjective
2. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
mystery
appeal to emotion
Characterization
Alice Walker
3. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
setting
preposition
fairy tale
point of view
4. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
point of view
historical fiction
imperative sentence
Stephen Crane
5. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
past perfect verb
hyperbole
homophone
Countee Cullen
6. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
haiku
free verse
adverb
homophone
7. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Percy Bysshe Shelley
future perfect verb
Harper Lee
Dialect
8. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
common noun
F. Scott Fitzgerald
persuasive
compare and contrast
9. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
William Shakespeare
sentence fragment
Allusion
Building Metacognition
10. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
complex sentence
Diction
Amy Tan
Maya Angelou
11. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
Harper Lee
George Herbert
symbol
chronological sequence
12. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
past tense verb
Simile
Ray Bradbury
cause and effect
13. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
harlem renaissance
personification
creative
Transcendentalism
14. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
science fiction
Dialect
Simile
sonnet
15. verb that can be used as an adjective
expository
Diction
participial
present tense verb
16. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
cause and effect
metonymy
collective noun
Modeling
17. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
appositive
past tense verb
collective noun
present tense verb
18. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
style
metonymy
Harper Lee
19. Original and imaginative
symbol
line graph
J. D. Salinger
creative
20. 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
novel
common noun
elegy
21. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
sonnet
Robert Frost
Activating Prior Knowledge
Maya Angelou
22. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
mystery
Antecedent
Willa Cather
Irony
23. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
compare and contrast
voice
Subject Verb Agreement
John Donne
24. 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
symbol
infinitive
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject Verb Agreement
25. 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
Countee Cullen
style
Transcendentalism
conjunction
26. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
point of view
Dialect
Characterization
legend
27. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
Subject Verb Agreement
participial
Irony
active verb
28. 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
present perfect verb
limerick
exclamatory sentence
Robert Frost
29. 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
tone
Characterization
Willa Cather
Walt Whitman
30. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
future perfect verb
apostrophe
common noun
31. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
independent clause
Anne Frank
Zora Neale Hurston
Subject Verb Agreement
32. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Anne Frank
Stephen Crane
Diction
Jane Austen
33. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
exclamatory sentence
Alice Walker
Andrew Marvell
Building Metacognition
34. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
dependent clause
declarative sentence
appositive
Activating Prior Knowledge
35. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Epic
mood
future perfect verb
Diction
36. 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.
imperative sentence
Building Metacognition
haiku
conjunction
37. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
noun
line graph
voice
allegory
38. Extreme exaggeration
Stephen Crane
declarative sentence
present perfect verb
hyperbole
39. 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
Irony
Simile
British Romantics
future perfect verb
40. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
short story
extended metaphor
Robert Frost
Antecedent
41. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
Simile
symbol
Robert Frost
noun
42. 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'
Ray Bradbury
Robert Frost
exclamatory sentence
voice
43. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
creative
appeal to authority
proper noun
limerick
44. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
adverb
Epic
compare and contrast
Willa Cather
45. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Frank
Herman Melville
Analogy
46. A phrase beginning with a preposition
bar graph
prepositional phrase
adverb
historical fiction
47. 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
preposition
Foreshadowing
Activating Prior Knowledge
adjective
48. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Allusion
common noun
Antecedent
Analogy
49. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
prepositional phrase
C. S. Lewis
Simile
complex sentence
50. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
free verse
fable
Robert Frost
compare and contrast