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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
Harper Lee
Anne Frank
line graph
C. S. Lewis
2. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
present perfect verb
Antecedent
Countee Cullen
couplet
3. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
complex sentence
fable
John Donne
4. 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
sonnet
British Romantics
Jane Austen
common noun
5. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
fable
Imagery
Edgar Allan Poe
Questioning
6. 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'
homophone
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Analogy
Amy Tan
7. 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
future perfect verb
metonymy
sentence fragment
Transcendentalism
8. A sentence that asks a question
synecdoche
symbol
interrogative sentence
Willa Cather
9. 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
Emily Dickinson
apostrophe
chronological sequence
Anne Frank
10. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Walt Whitman
free verse
voice
adjective
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'
Foreshadowing
voice
prepositional phrase
Henry David Thoreau
12. 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).
simple sentence
Edgar Allan Poe
bar graph
past tense verb
13. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
George Herbert
infinitive
Alliteration
J. D. Salinger
14. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Subject Verb Agreement
folk tale
Foreshadowing
paradox
15. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
point of view
independent clause
compound sentence
elegy
16. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
short story
Characterization
common noun
Maya Angelou
17. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
adjective
present perfect verb
appositive
Transcendentalism
18. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Maya Angelou
folk tale
personification
symbol
19. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
tone
Antecedent
future perfect verb
preposition
20. 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.
voice
haiku
short story
homophone
21. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
legend
Robert Frost
Andrew Marvell
past perfect verb
22. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
mood
bar graph
Harper Lee
past tense verb
23. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
style
Questioning
collective noun
William Shakespeare
24. A word that takes the place of a noun
C. S. Lewis
pronoun
common noun
preposition
25. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
setting
active verb
persuasive
John Keats
26. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
passive verb
preposition
fairy tale
past perfect verb
27. Expresses action or state of being
verb
adverb
expository
Willa Cather
28. 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.
pronoun
Percy Bysshe Shelley
symbolism
proper noun
29. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
complex sentence
passive verb
Questioning
30. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
noun
simple sentence
symbolism
Mark Twain
31. 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
sentence fragment
dependent clause
metonymy
Anne Frank
32. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
voice
Langston Hughes
point of view
33. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
personification
Maya Angelou
Subject Verb Agreement
sonnet
34. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
style
Ralph Waldo Emerson
mystery
spatial sequence
35. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
couplet
mood
apostrophe
Amy Tan
36. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Alliteration
science fiction
hyperbole
adverb
37. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
Maya Angelou
Amy Tan
Robert Frost
F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
verb
fable
Emily Dickinson
J. D. Salinger
39. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
J. D. Salinger
sonnet
Mary Shelley
past tense verb
40. A sad or mournful poem
historical fiction
elegy
Modeling
George Orwell
41. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
short story
Edgar Allan Poe
pie chart
present perfect verb
42. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Building Metacognition
Participle
past tense verb
sentence fragment
43. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Participle
Mary Shelley
adjective
common noun
44. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
Foreshadowing
adjective
active verb
exclamatory sentence
45. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
voice
John Keats
symbolism
Analogy
46. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
fable
past tense verb
Zora Neale Hurston
appeal to authority
47. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
bar graph
Antecedent
creative
Willa Cather
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
infinitive
historical fiction
J. D. Salinger
Irony
49. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
compound complex sentence
verb
Maya Angelou
Characterization
50. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
symbolism
mystery
myth
noun