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Praxis 2 English Literature
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1. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Imagery
Foreshadowing
free verse
Diction
2. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
Countee Cullen
Building Metacognition
Alliteration
3. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
J. D. Salinger
Dialect
sentence fragment
Maya Angelou
4. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Edgar Allan Poe
compound sentence
adjective
C. S. Lewis
5. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
common noun
John Donne
declarative sentence
cause and effect
6. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
mystery
Activating Prior Knowledge
Walt Whitman
Countee Cullen
7. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
expository
personification
extended metaphor
Emily Dickinson
8. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
pie chart
legend
Amy Tan
Analogy
9. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
symbolism
Willa Cather
Jane Austen
Edgar Allan Poe
10. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
extended metaphor
novel
science fiction
folk tale
11. A sentence that asks a question
myth
George Orwell
haiku
interrogative sentence
12. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
metonymy
historical fiction
Imagery
Langston Hughes
13. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Amy Tan
couplet
appositive
Imagery
14. 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
C. S. Lewis
symbol
Langston Hughes
free verse
15. Extreme exaggeration
historical fiction
Allusion
hyperbole
past tense verb
16. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
appositive
science fiction
Alice Walker
17. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Questioning
pronoun
interrogative sentence
Simile
18. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
Countee Cullen
synecdoche
passive verb
19. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
short story
Transcendentalism
complex sentence
fairy tale
20. Original and imaginative
appeal to emotion
elegy
George Herbert
creative
21. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
exclamatory sentence
proper noun
allegory
expository
22. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
Harper Lee
bar graph
pronoun
Diction
23. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
creative
personification
simple sentence
Andrew Marvell
24. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Herman Melville
Antecedent
independent clause
participial
25. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
present perfect verb
harlem renaissance
Langston Hughes
Analogy
26. 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
Ray Bradbury
limerick
proper noun
appeal to authority
27. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
simple sentence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edgar Allan Poe
Characterization
28. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
William Shakespeare
style
Participle
John Donne
29. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
appositive
present perfect verb
Metaphysical poets
Diction
30. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
George Orwell
legend
synecdoche
symbolism
31. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
setting
common noun
complex sentence
Antecedent
32. 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
present tense verb
common noun
Metaphysical poets
Stephen Crane
33. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
harlem renaissance
George Herbert
Andrew Marvell
34. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
homophone
declarative sentence
metaphor
myth
35. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
simple sentence
Metaphysical poets
Stephen Crane
Walt Whitman
36. 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
extended metaphor
creative
persuasive
37. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
past perfect verb
fairy tale
Subject Verb Agreement
38. 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
George Herbert
preposition
Activating Prior Knowledge
mood
39. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Zora Neale Hurston
chronological sequence
Mary Shelley
Epic
40. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
John Keats
tone
Allusion
prepositional phrase
41. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Mark Twain
Activating Prior Knowledge
conjunction
past tense verb
42. helping students to achieve independence in reading by first giving support and then gradually taking it away as students are ready to do the tasks on their own
Alice Walker
Harper Lee
Scaffolding
elegy
43. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialect
folk tale
present tense verb
cause and effect
44. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
hyperbole
John Keats
complex sentence
harlem renaissance
45. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
cause and effect
persuasive
compound sentence
George Orwell
46. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
common noun
passive verb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
conjunction
47. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
Stephen Crane
preposition
exclamatory sentence
Imagery
48. 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'
Modeling
adjective
Robert Frost
declarative sentence
49. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Zora Neale Hurston
appeal to authority
homophone
50. 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
C. S. Lewis
Walt Whitman
J. D. Salinger
compound complex sentence
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