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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
persuasive
mood
Antecedent
Jane Austen
2. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
interrogative sentence
Zora Neale Hurston
active verb
extended metaphor
3. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
George Orwell
Simile
exclamatory sentence
pie chart
4. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
Jane Austen
common noun
Analogy
dependent clause
5. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
haiku
expository
conjunction
Characterization
6. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
fable
C. S. Lewis
elegy
Harper Lee
7. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
exclamatory sentence
Imagery
symbol
Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
science fiction
couplet
J. D. Salinger
Irony
9. 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
Herman Melville
John Keats
personification
Participle
10. Original and imaginative
Epic
allegory
creative
pie chart
11. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
symbol
mystery
present tense verb
fairy tale
12. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
legend
apostrophe
John Keats
limerick
13. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Modeling
Percy Bysshe Shelley
mood
Foreshadowing
14. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
collective noun
J. D. Salinger
past tense verb
past perfect verb
15. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
Maya Angelou
cause and effect
past tense verb
creative
16. A sentence that asks a question
interrogative sentence
Maya Angelou
Imagery
Emily Dickinson
17. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
Zora Neale Hurston
expository
imperative sentence
Percy Bysshe Shelley
18. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
George Orwell
independent clause
noun
harlem renaissance
19. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Langston Hughes
Participle
metonymy
Robert Frost
20. 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
Herman Melville
preposition
Alice Walker
21. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
symbolism
Alliteration
C. S. Lewis
collective noun
22. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
voice
declarative sentence
compound sentence
Alice Walker
23. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
appositive
fable
personification
novel
24. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
elegy
Dialect
allegory
synecdoche
25. 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
common noun
George Herbert
participial
26. 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
free verse
Metaphysical poets
Alliteration
27. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
creative
cause and effect
interrogative sentence
28. 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
John Keats
extended metaphor
Foreshadowing
adverb
29. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Simile
Willa Cather
Mark Twain
Amy Tan
30. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
metonymy
Participle
William Shakespeare
point of view
31. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
J.R.R. Tolkein
Henry David Thoreau
adverb
Amy Tan
32. 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'
Diction
present perfect verb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Orwell
33. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
harlem renaissance
Subject Verb Agreement
spatial sequence
George Herbert
34. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
setting
Mary Shelley
limerick
past tense verb
35. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
harlem renaissance
Epic
preposition
Foreshadowing
36. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Simile
cause and effect
symbolism
expository
37. 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
Robert Frost
Stephen Crane
present tense verb
folk tale
38. 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'
limerick
appeal to authority
Diction
Henry David Thoreau
39. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
persuasive
elegy
expository
present perfect verb
40. 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
metaphor
simple sentence
Characterization
41. 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
limerick
Transcendentalism
legend
allegory
42. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
voice
Jane Austen
Metaphysical poets
proper noun
43. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
Zora Neale Hurston
past perfect verb
Percy Bysshe Shelley
bar graph
44. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Herman Melville
complex sentence
simple sentence
style
45. 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'
Analogy
cause and effect
Robert Frost
interrogative sentence
46. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Analogy
Zora Neale Hurston
line graph
Amy Tan
47. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
mystery
bar graph
voice
novel
48. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Questioning
Langston Hughes
present tense verb
Characterization
49. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
limerick
Dialect
metaphor
personification
50. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Diction
J. D. Salinger
Scaffolding
short story