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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
Subject Verb Agreement
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alice Walker
2. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
compare and contrast
independent clause
mystery
imperative sentence
3. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Building Metacognition
simple sentence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
interrogative sentence
4. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Transcendentalism
appeal to emotion
Walt Whitman
allegory
5. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
apostrophe
Alliteration
extended metaphor
interrogative sentence
6. Extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
infinitive
fairy tale
metonymy
7. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
collective noun
appeal to authority
sonnet
fairy tale
8. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
John Keats
past perfect verb
simple sentence
personification
9. 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
Amy Tan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Diction
Countee Cullen
10. A phrase beginning with a preposition
British Romantics
Ralph Waldo Emerson
prepositional phrase
expository
11. 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
Imagery
Diction
Cliche
12. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Ralph Waldo Emerson
science fiction
Irony
style
13. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
Robert Frost
apostrophe
George Orwell
14. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Epic
Robert Frost
complex sentence
15. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
couplet
Amy Tan
Mary Shelley
independent clause
16. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
declarative sentence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
novel
appositive
17. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
Stephen Crane
George Herbert
passive verb
Allusion
18. 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.
Stephen Crane
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Walt Whitman
infinitive
19. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
historical fiction
Langston Hughes
Modeling
Antecedent
20. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Participle
appositive
apostrophe
bar graph
21. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
proper noun
limerick
adjective
novel
22. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Amy Tan
active verb
homophone
passive verb
23. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
persuasive
haiku
Emily Dickinson
dependent clause
24. 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).
proper noun
Edgar Allan Poe
novel
Harper Lee
25. A sentence that asks a question
pronoun
interrogative sentence
harlem renaissance
creative
26. 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
spatial sequence
preposition
past tense verb
appositive
27. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
J.R.R. Tolkein
Simile
past tense verb
George Herbert
28. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Foreshadowing
Simile
John Keats
Ray Bradbury
29. Two consecutive rhyming lines
present perfect verb
Mary Shelley
couplet
dependent clause
30. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
appositive
John Keats
George Herbert
harlem renaissance
31. Tell how things are alike and different
interrogative sentence
compare and contrast
verb
Amy Tan
32. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
noun
Antecedent
bar graph
Harper Lee
33. A sad or mournful poem
science fiction
adjective
extended metaphor
elegy
34. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
elegy
symbol
Percy Bysshe Shelley
35. 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
George Herbert
C. S. Lewis
haiku
personification
36. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
prepositional phrase
compound sentence
paradox
free verse
37. 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
future perfect verb
interrogative sentence
Dialect
Langston Hughes
38. 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
infinitive
Subject Verb Agreement
expository
Irony
39. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
myth
Walt Whitman
appeal to emotion
interrogative sentence
40. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
British Romantics
mystery
Harper Lee
fairy tale
41. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
extended metaphor
Metaphysical poets
Irony
Andrew Marvell
42. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
free verse
expository
George Herbert
F. Scott Fitzgerald
43. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
novel
historical fiction
fairy tale
chronological sequence
44. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
personification
Ralph Waldo Emerson
British Romantics
Allusion
45. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
legend
collective noun
Scaffolding
Henry David Thoreau
46. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
synecdoche
Antecedent
Analogy
47. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
British Romantics
personification
homophone
Activating Prior Knowledge
48. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
creative
paradox
conjunction
Amy Tan
49. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Keats
Allusion
extended metaphor
50. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Irony
conjunction
Diction
novel