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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. 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
prepositional phrase
Epic
John Keats
Stephen Crane
2. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Activating Prior Knowledge
collective noun
Epic
exclamatory sentence
3. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
harlem renaissance
compound complex sentence
fable
sentence fragment
4. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
exclamatory sentence
John Keats
passive verb
Alliteration
5. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
limerick
Alice Walker
infinitive
6. Original and imaginative
creative
exclamatory sentence
extended metaphor
paradox
7. 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
symbolism
J. D. Salinger
preposition
mystery
8. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Analogy
Herman Melville
historical fiction
appeal to emotion
9. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
myth
Stephen Crane
Maya Angelou
Modeling
10. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
common noun
style
J.R.R. Tolkein
Participle
11. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
Ralph Waldo Emerson
historical fiction
noun
12. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epic
present tense verb
proper noun
Edgar Allan Poe
13. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Mark Twain
style
limerick
compare and contrast
14. 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
metaphor
Analogy
imperative sentence
conjunction
15. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
Harper Lee
exclamatory sentence
Analogy
Participle
16. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
setting
cause and effect
John Donne
Jane Austen
17. 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
allegory
Countee Cullen
Alliteration
elegy
18. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
spatial sequence
Anne Frank
fairy tale
expository
19. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
dependent clause
Participle
Subject Verb Agreement
20. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Questioning
Ray Bradbury
present perfect verb
infinitive
21. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
past perfect verb
compare and contrast
Anne Frank
sentence fragment
22. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
metaphor
participial
William Shakespeare
Alice Walker
23. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Mark Twain
Simile
Allusion
exclamatory sentence
24. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
synecdoche
preposition
historical fiction
declarative sentence
25. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
compound sentence
exclamatory sentence
Scaffolding
tone
26. 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
Amy Tan
Transcendentalism
Anne Frank
Epic
27. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
metaphor
tone
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Characterization
28. 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).
couplet
Edgar Allan Poe
future perfect verb
myth
29. 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
Ray Bradbury
Activating Prior Knowledge
chronological sequence
John Keats
30. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
past tense verb
folk tale
Diction
mystery
31. 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
adverb
Questioning
independent clause
32. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Amy Tan
appositive
line graph
conjunction
33. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Antecedent
Emily Dickinson
British Romantics
metaphor
34. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Cliche
simple sentence
Questioning
independent clause
35. Tell how things are alike and different
F. Scott Fitzgerald
compare and contrast
setting
Characterization
36. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
exclamatory sentence
Harper Lee
Langston Hughes
mood
37. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
free verse
allegory
conjunction
synecdoche
38. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
Langston Hughes
bar graph
Harper Lee
39. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
short story
novel
prepositional phrase
George Orwell
40. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
voice
Cliche
complex sentence
adjective
41. 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'
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
Alliteration
prepositional phrase
42. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Diction
pie chart
Mary Shelley
novel
43. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
persuasive
homophone
proper noun
spatial sequence
44. 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.
haiku
historical fiction
pronoun
John Keats
45. 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
pie chart
Metaphysical poets
mystery
John Keats
46. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Keats
short story
personification
47. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
line graph
metonymy
verb
spatial sequence
48. 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
Robert Frost
Simile
infinitive
present perfect verb
49. 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
fairy tale
John Keats
limerick
Metaphysical poets
50. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
present perfect verb
George Orwell
Henry David Thoreau
appeal to authority
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