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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. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
independent clause
past perfect verb
present tense verb
Zora Neale Hurston
2. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
metaphor
sentence fragment
George Orwell
compare and contrast
3. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
symbolism
fable
Antecedent
Anne Frank
4. 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
Stephen Crane
Transcendentalism
William Shakespeare
Emily Dickinson
5. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
line graph
compare and contrast
common noun
chronological sequence
6. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
sonnet
persuasive
Participle
elegy
7. 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
Allusion
adverb
John Keats
Questioning
8. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
free verse
J.R.R. Tolkein
Stephen Crane
9. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Diction
Participle
paradox
Epic
10. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
short story
Countee Cullen
Analogy
11. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Subject Verb Agreement
bar graph
Foreshadowing
pronoun
12. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
George Herbert
Activating Prior Knowledge
style
Building Metacognition
13. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
adjective
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism
14. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
Walt Whitman
future perfect verb
style
15. Original and imaginative
cause and effect
Characterization
creative
Countee Cullen
16. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
British Romantics
verb
symbolism
17. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
infinitive
John Keats
declarative sentence
mystery
18. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
allegory
preposition
cause and effect
Ray Bradbury
19. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
appeal to emotion
past tense verb
apostrophe
Countee Cullen
20. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
active verb
Antecedent
conjunction
line graph
21. 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
common noun
expository
preposition
Emily Dickinson
22. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Alice Walker
Andrew Marvell
Activating Prior Knowledge
noun
23. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
bar graph
elegy
passive verb
fairy tale
24. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
sonnet
Subject Verb Agreement
short story
couplet
25. 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'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
present perfect verb
apostrophe
science fiction
26. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
appeal to emotion
Metaphysical poets
participial
tone
27. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
verb
C. S. Lewis
harlem renaissance
style
28. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
sentence fragment
Percy Bysshe Shelley
homophone
Willa Cather
29. 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
preposition
Metaphysical poets
Walt Whitman
legend
30. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
William Shakespeare
imperative sentence
J. D. Salinger
31. Tell how things are alike and different
Andrew Marvell
Cliche
compare and contrast
free verse
32. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
exclamatory sentence
Robert Frost
metonymy
Zora Neale Hurston
33. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
Foreshadowing
Mary Shelley
adverb
34. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
William Shakespeare
Characterization
symbolism
35. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
fable
Alliteration
Herman Melville
Metaphysical poets
36. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
cause and effect
Amy Tan
adjective
line graph
37. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
sonnet
noun
Herman Melville
present perfect verb
38. 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.
line graph
apostrophe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
39. 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).
line graph
Edgar Allan Poe
elegy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
Amy Tan
John Keats
Simile
symbol
41. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
Countee Cullen
couplet
Harper Lee
42. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
conjunction
synecdoche
sonnet
Herman Melville
43. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
prepositional phrase
compound sentence
Jane Austen
past tense verb
44. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
conjunction
Dialect
Activating Prior Knowledge
John Donne
45. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Diction
F. Scott Fitzgerald
future perfect verb
line graph
46. 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
apostrophe
synecdoche
Walt Whitman
prepositional phrase
47. 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
hyperbole
Transcendentalism
J.R.R. Tolkein
fable
48. Expresses action or state of being
Subject Verb Agreement
Herman Melville
Amy Tan
verb
49. 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
active verb
declarative sentence
Metaphysical poets
Stephen Crane
50. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
William Shakespeare
Metaphysical poets
J. D. Salinger
noun