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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
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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 graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
prepositional phrase
Robert Frost
line graph
Harper Lee
2. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Maya Angelou
science fiction
Activating Prior Knowledge
appositive
3. 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'
Henry David Thoreau
setting
spatial sequence
J. D. Salinger
4. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
complex sentence
Henry David Thoreau
Percy Bysshe Shelley
symbol
5. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
line graph
mystery
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Participle
6. 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
mood
historical fiction
John Keats
7. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
short story
prepositional phrase
Antecedent
Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
compound sentence
sonnet
elegy
fairy tale
9. Original and imaginative
line graph
creative
Building Metacognition
harlem renaissance
10. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
harlem renaissance
declarative sentence
Andrew Marvell
Allusion
11. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Simile
Epic
harlem renaissance
apostrophe
12. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
voice
persuasive
myth
elegy
13. A following of one thing after another in time
chronological sequence
spatial sequence
present perfect verb
Edgar Allan Poe
14. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
C. S. Lewis
harlem renaissance
paradox
declarative sentence
15. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
metonymy
line graph
free verse
16. 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
present tense verb
Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson
Stephen Crane
17. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
Mark Twain
Allusion
future perfect verb
apostrophe
18. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
compound complex sentence
cause and effect
Foreshadowing
line graph
19. 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
simple sentence
John Keats
symbolism
Dialect
20. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
Antecedent
exclamatory sentence
metaphor
compound sentence
21. A sentence that asks a question
George Herbert
passive verb
short story
interrogative sentence
22. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
harlem renaissance
mood
William Shakespeare
symbolism
23. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
mood
Building Metacognition
compound sentence
Stephen Crane
24. A sentence that requests or commands
future perfect verb
imperative sentence
J.R.R. Tolkein
past tense verb
25. 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
noun
John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Metaphysical poets
26. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
metonymy
Emily Dickinson
Amy Tan
short story
27. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
George Herbert
Emily Dickinson
creative
28. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
novel
conjunction
Countee Cullen
Questioning
29. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Mary Shelley
John Keats
style
short story
30. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
harlem renaissance
persuasive
Edgar Allan Poe
present perfect verb
31. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Transcendentalism
interrogative sentence
bar graph
32. A word that takes the place of a noun
personification
Anne Frank
pronoun
Transcendentalism
33. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
mood
myth
Metaphysical poets
Alliteration
34. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
collective noun
Andrew Marvell
extended metaphor
J. D. Salinger
35. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Emily Dickinson
George Orwell
limerick
extended metaphor
36. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
Metaphysical poets
adjective
mystery
37. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
apostrophe
extended metaphor
John Donne
line graph
38. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Foreshadowing
creative
mood
George Herbert
39. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
interrogative sentence
Andrew Marvell
Harper Lee
John Keats
40. 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
myth
legend
symbol
metaphor
41. verb that can be used as an adjective
F. Scott Fitzgerald
chronological sequence
appositive
participial
42. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Willa Cather
appositive
Foreshadowing
Alice Walker
43. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
appositive
compound complex sentence
Diction
verb
44. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
synecdoche
folk tale
expository
Walt Whitman
45. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Diction
harlem renaissance
future perfect verb
adverb
46. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
adjective
elegy
bar graph
appeal to emotion
47. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
persuasive
Imagery
Willa Cather
appeal to emotion
48. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Percy Bysshe Shelley
allegory
dependent clause
setting
49. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
past tense verb
metaphor
free verse
metonymy
50. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
proper noun
Zora Neale Hurston
collective noun
pie chart