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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
mood
Zora Neale Hurston
limerick
Edgar Allan Poe
2. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
appeal to emotion
Antecedent
John Keats
John Keats
3. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
future perfect verb
Diction
apostrophe
Robert Frost
4. 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
Andrew Marvell
Transcendentalism
proper noun
Modeling
5. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
Jane Austen
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scaffolding
6. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
present perfect verb
voice
persuasive
Metaphysical poets
7. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Alice Walker
George Orwell
Antecedent
spatial sequence
8. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Mark Twain
Edgar Allan Poe
present tense verb
Henry David Thoreau
9. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
common noun
expository
legend
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. 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
apostrophe
synecdoche
hyperbole
11. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
point of view
future perfect verb
Modeling
Willa Cather
12. Expresses action or state of being
verb
Andrew Marvell
present tense verb
J.R.R. Tolkein
13. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
style
verb
appositive
noun
14. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
chronological sequence
Zora Neale Hurston
present tense verb
proper noun
15. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
fairy tale
adverb
creative
Harper Lee
16. 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
preposition
haiku
Antecedent
verb
17. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
couplet
fable
William Shakespeare
Zora Neale Hurston
18. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
pie chart
Percy Bysshe Shelley
extended metaphor
Characterization
19. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
dependent clause
exclamatory sentence
proper noun
legend
20. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Amy Tan
Herman Melville
expository
tone
21. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
metonymy
Metaphysical poets
compound complex sentence
sonnet
22. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
passive verb
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Amy Tan
23. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Ray Bradbury
homophone
Building Metacognition
metaphor
24. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
pronoun
cause and effect
Andrew Marvell
allegory
25. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Diction
John Keats
Questioning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. A phrase beginning with a preposition
voice
appeal to emotion
conjunction
prepositional phrase
27. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
compare and contrast
Epic
bar graph
active verb
28. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Stephen Crane
novel
couplet
pronoun
29. 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
C. S. Lewis
Stephen Crane
free verse
setting
30. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
Activating Prior Knowledge
cause and effect
Harper Lee
31. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
complex sentence
Building Metacognition
British Romantics
independent clause
32. 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'
Harper Lee
spatial sequence
Henry David Thoreau
creative
33. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
mystery
extended metaphor
preposition
compare and contrast
34. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
William Shakespeare
style
adjective
Simile
35. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
apostrophe
Amy Tan
Irony
past tense verb
36. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Anne Frank
collective noun
Walt Whitman
chronological sequence
37. 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'
John Donne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
sonnet
Imagery
38. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
British Romantics
Imagery
Antecedent
active verb
39. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
present perfect verb
setting
elegy
C. S. Lewis
40. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
compound sentence
pie chart
exclamatory sentence
Maya Angelou
41. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
homophone
expository
independent clause
symbolism
42. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
line graph
pie chart
Imagery
harlem renaissance
43. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
J. D. Salinger
noun
independent clause
Building Metacognition
44. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
compare and contrast
apostrophe
Modeling
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
noun
Building Metacognition
line graph
Percy Bysshe Shelley
46. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Allusion
Participle
Harper Lee
legend
47. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
J. D. Salinger
Irony
short story
Foreshadowing
48. Extreme exaggeration
Ralph Waldo Emerson
chronological sequence
hyperbole
harlem renaissance
49. A word that takes the place of a noun
pronoun
tone
allegory
historical fiction
50. 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
Emily Dickinson
John Keats
Diction
F. Scott Fitzgerald