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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
preposition
creative
noun
appeal to authority
2. 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
future perfect verb
folk tale
fairy tale
Countee Cullen
3. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
Emily Dickinson
British Romantics
preposition
4. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epic
passive verb
participial
Langston Hughes
5. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
Activating Prior Knowledge
expository
free verse
Walt Whitman
6. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Countee Cullen
compare and contrast
allegory
J.R.R. Tolkein
7. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Austen
imperative sentence
Andrew Marvell
8. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
George Herbert
collective noun
Henry David Thoreau
9. A following of one thing after another in time
harlem renaissance
chronological sequence
Scaffolding
verb
10. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Alliteration
Analogy
Ray Bradbury
present perfect verb
11. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
short story
mystery
exclamatory sentence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
future perfect verb
Activating Prior Knowledge
voice
symbolism
13. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
Diction
Participle
mood
simple sentence
14. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
metonymy
spatial sequence
complex sentence
prepositional phrase
15. 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
limerick
persuasive
participial
16. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Amy Tan
preposition
past tense verb
myth
17. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
historical fiction
future perfect verb
Imagery
cause and effect
18. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Ray Bradbury
Andrew Marvell
William Shakespeare
Countee Cullen
19. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
adverb
collective noun
Analogy
participial
20. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
Cliche
hyperbole
adjective
21. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
Dialect
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Shakespeare
mystery
22. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Questioning
persuasive
Scaffolding
Mary Shelley
23. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
sonnet
symbolism
extended metaphor
Alliteration
24. 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
Diction
Ray Bradbury
symbolism
25. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Countee Cullen
science fiction
past perfect verb
Building Metacognition
26. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
extended metaphor
paradox
Scaffolding
sentence fragment
27. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
folk tale
Dialect
future perfect verb
collective noun
28. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
present perfect verb
collective noun
participial
metonymy
29. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
infinitive
Henry David Thoreau
setting
noun
30. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
fable
voice
Modeling
limerick
31. Original and imaginative
historical fiction
creative
George Herbert
sonnet
32. An English writer - poet - philologist - and university professor - best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit - The Lord of the Rings - and The Silmarillion
George Orwell
J.R.R. Tolkein
preposition
persuasive
33. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
Zora Neale Hurston
short story
fairy tale
34. 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
Willa Cather
interrogative sentence
complex sentence
35. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
line graph
point of view
historical fiction
expository
36. Expresses action or state of being
verb
pronoun
metaphor
adverb
37. A sad or mournful poem
Jane Austen
appeal to authority
elegy
Alliteration
38. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
cause and effect
common noun
Henry David Thoreau
John Keats
39. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
bar graph
Subject Verb Agreement
conjunction
Maya Angelou
40. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
appeal to emotion
J. D. Salinger
Irony
appeal to authority
41. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
collective noun
bar graph
George Orwell
John Donne
42. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
George Orwell
F. Scott Fitzgerald
allegory
adverb
43. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Activating Prior Knowledge
Participle
Alice Walker
Mark Twain
44. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Antecedent
hyperbole
Subject Verb Agreement
Foreshadowing
45. A phrase beginning with a preposition
Edgar Allan Poe
prepositional phrase
Activating Prior Knowledge
appositive
46. 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
historical fiction
extended metaphor
chronological sequence
47. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
simple sentence
Langston Hughes
homophone
48. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
style
past perfect verb
Dialect
collective noun
49. 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
British Romantics
Imagery
synecdoche
Antecedent
50. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
past tense verb
adverb
dependent clause
Mary Shelley