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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
science fiction
C. S. Lewis
spatial sequence
appositive
2. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
Walt Whitman
adverb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Frank
3. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
synecdoche
myth
Stephen Crane
past perfect verb
4. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
J.R.R. Tolkein
novel
Building Metacognition
Characterization
5. 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
Mark Twain
hyperbole
Walt Whitman
Irony
6. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
line graph
point of view
William Shakespeare
Epic
7. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
short story
British Romantics
voice
Alice Walker
8. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
dependent clause
Antecedent
compound complex sentence
past perfect verb
9. 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'
allegory
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allan Poe
Diction
10. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
folk tale
homophone
Henry David Thoreau
J. D. Salinger
11. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
dependent clause
verb
Mark Twain
past perfect verb
12. 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
dependent clause
personification
haiku
homophone
13. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
bar graph
Characterization
adjective
apostrophe
14. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
cause and effect
exclamatory sentence
Questioning
Subject Verb Agreement
15. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Ray Bradbury
science fiction
setting
Alice Walker
16. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Langston Hughes
line graph
Imagery
Participle
17. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
haiku
Percy Bysshe Shelley
metonymy
Harper Lee
18. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Langston Hughes
fable
Characterization
Activating Prior Knowledge
19. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Robert Frost
George Herbert
metonymy
interrogative sentence
20. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
mood
elegy
extended metaphor
Mary Shelley
21. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
legend
Diction
J. D. Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Diction
George Herbert
adjective
Imagery
23. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
Dialect
synecdoche
homophone
sonnet
24. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
elegy
harlem renaissance
symbolism
Amy Tan
25. A worn - out idea or overused expression
free verse
collective noun
Cliche
verb
26. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Anne Frank
Andrew Marvell
free verse
27. A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century - who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them; favored intellect over emotions
Andrew Marvell
Herman Melville
Metaphysical poets
simple sentence
28. 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
personification
Foreshadowing
British Romantics
Henry David Thoreau
29. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
compound sentence
mood
metaphor
tone
30. 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'
metaphor
Modeling
creative
Robert Frost
31. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
chronological sequence
metaphor
Characterization
active verb
32. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
complex sentence
personification
passive verb
33. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
John Keats
present tense verb
past perfect verb
future perfect verb
34. 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.
harlem renaissance
Walt Whitman
Ray Bradbury
haiku
35. 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'
appeal to emotion
pronoun
Henry David Thoreau
compound complex sentence
36. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
C. S. Lewis
fairy tale
future perfect verb
Anne Frank
37. Original and imaginative
adjective
Andrew Marvell
creative
adverb
38. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Countee Cullen
Antecedent
short story
Modeling
39. 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
chronological sequence
expository
paradox
Emily Dickinson
40. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
cause and effect
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amy Tan
41. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
simple sentence
spatial sequence
prepositional phrase
42. A phrase beginning with a preposition
prepositional phrase
pie chart
C. S. Lewis
couplet
43. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
fairy tale
Andrew Marvell
exclamatory sentence
George Orwell
44. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Simile
Analogy
Stephen Crane
Maya Angelou
45. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
extended metaphor
Maya Angelou
independent clause
Andrew Marvell
46. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
Subject Verb Agreement
Epic
past tense verb
symbol
47. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Stephen Crane
exclamatory sentence
style
synecdoche
48. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
Mark Twain
noun
compound complex sentence
Metaphysical poets
49. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
independent clause
Allusion
appeal to authority
50. 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
metonymy
Subject Verb Agreement
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Keats