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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
cause and effect
Diction
J.R.R. Tolkein
expository
2. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
Countee Cullen
present perfect verb
Dialect
setting
3. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
simple sentence
synecdoche
imperative sentence
Countee Cullen
4. 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
Herman Melville
Stephen Crane
Amy Tan
Epic
5. A sentence that asks a question
independent clause
historical fiction
interrogative sentence
conjunction
6. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
declarative sentence
Anne Frank
preposition
Harper Lee
7. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
spatial sequence
voice
Anne Frank
simple sentence
8. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
mystery
proper noun
Allusion
tone
9. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
free verse
dependent clause
mood
sonnet
10. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
imperative sentence
free verse
present perfect verb
symbol
11. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Subject Verb Agreement
synecdoche
preposition
apostrophe
12. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
Antecedent
compound complex sentence
simple sentence
Stephen Crane
13. 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
past perfect verb
Transcendentalism
dependent clause
fairy tale
14. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
legend
fairy tale
Walt Whitman
Zora Neale Hurston
15. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
synecdoche
Analogy
proper noun
symbolism
16. 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
line graph
Edgar Allan Poe
allegory
limerick
17. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
present perfect verb
historical fiction
Amy Tan
Stephen Crane
18. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Andrew Marvell
present tense verb
Willa Cather
mood
19. 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
style
passive verb
imperative sentence
preposition
20. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
metaphor
synecdoche
Jane Austen
voice
21. Was an English poet and playwright - widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre - eminent dramatist; major works include 'Romeo and Juliet' 'Othello' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
setting
elegy
William Shakespeare
Questioning
22. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
present tense verb
mystery
short story
Mary Shelley
23. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
symbol
participial
Henry David Thoreau
bar graph
24. 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
Scaffolding
setting
John Keats
Metaphysical poets
25. 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
symbolism
Participle
British Romantics
Maya Angelou
26. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
Participle
style
dependent clause
prepositional phrase
27. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
mystery
compound sentence
Scaffolding
Epic
28. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
point of view
fable
Allusion
29. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
Ray Bradbury
common noun
novel
cause and effect
30. 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
mood
metaphor
symbol
noun
31. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Epic
personification
symbol
synecdoche
32. 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
Countee Cullen
metonymy
setting
present tense verb
33. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Robert Frost
Jane Austen
complex sentence
science fiction
34. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
proper noun
simple sentence
metonymy
Imagery
35. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
harlem renaissance
pie chart
J.R.R. Tolkein
pronoun
36. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
symbolism
persuasive
verb
Herman Melville
37. A sentence that requests or commands
J.R.R. Tolkein
synecdoche
point of view
imperative sentence
38. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
expository
fable
conjunction
J.R.R. Tolkein
39. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Analogy
haiku
Metaphysical poets
persuasive
40. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Mark Twain
Alice Walker
style
imperative sentence
41. 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
Participle
prepositional phrase
Modeling
42. 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
Analogy
fairy tale
John Keats
cause and effect
43. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
Zora Neale Hurston
Emily Dickinson
point of view
expository
44. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
Herman Melville
Stephen Crane
allegory
45. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Building Metacognition
mystery
future perfect verb
Cliche
46. 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
Dialect
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Allusion
47. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
John Keats
Langston Hughes
metonymy
Stephen Crane
48. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
fairy tale
historical fiction
Walt Whitman
active verb
49. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
paradox
sentence fragment
Irony
past perfect verb
50. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
pronoun
spatial sequence
paradox
Ralph Waldo Emerson