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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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1. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
present tense verb
Dialect
chronological sequence
George Orwell
2. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Walt Whitman
Building Metacognition
Irony
historical fiction
3. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Emily Dickinson
folk tale
Simile
Alliteration
4. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
Henry David Thoreau
Cliche
point of view
Herman Melville
5. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Maya Angelou
legend
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Simile
6. A sad or mournful poem
declarative sentence
myth
elegy
Harper Lee
7. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
proper noun
William Shakespeare
appeal to authority
Analogy
8. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Jane Austen
harlem renaissance
interrogative sentence
collective noun
9. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Building Metacognition
John Donne
setting
free verse
10. 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
folk tale
metaphor
Stephen Crane
participial
11. 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
J. D. Salinger
Imagery
preposition
compare and contrast
12. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Diction
harlem renaissance
cause and effect
mood
13. 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'
George Orwell
appositive
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
14. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Diction
past tense verb
personification
Robert Frost
15. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Mark Twain
Anne Frank
Activating Prior Knowledge
Andrew Marvell
16. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
novel
Harper Lee
Irony
Emily Dickinson
17. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
pronoun
present tense verb
verb
Henry David Thoreau
18. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
sonnet
Activating Prior Knowledge
creative
Anne Frank
19. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Ray Bradbury
Amy Tan
conjunction
noun
20. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
conjunction
compare and contrast
Epic
21. 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
mood
Scaffolding
Langston Hughes
Epic
22. 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'
mystery
Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. S. Lewis
short story
23. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Jane Austen
allegory
extended metaphor
Anne Frank
24. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
extended metaphor
line graph
Irony
Building Metacognition
25. Extreme exaggeration
adverb
present perfect verb
Anne Frank
hyperbole
26. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
dependent clause
harlem renaissance
verb
27. 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
pie chart
Countee Cullen
Zora Neale Hurston
John Keats
28. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
participial
Walt Whitman
Antecedent
Jane Austen
29. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
hyperbole
Walt Whitman
proper noun
John Keats
30. 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
John Keats
simple sentence
Irony
31. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
Modeling
future perfect verb
proper noun
32. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
John Keats
folk tale
limerick
33. 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
Transcendentalism
Simile
George Herbert
historical fiction
34. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Questioning
conjunction
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Herman Melville
35. 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
Subject Verb Agreement
pie chart
J.R.R. Tolkein
compound sentence
36. 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
dependent clause
J. D. Salinger
adjective
present tense verb
37. 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
extended metaphor
point of view
infinitive
participial
38. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
common noun
metonymy
Zora Neale Hurston
homophone
39. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Harper Lee
independent clause
Amy Tan
appositive
40. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
extended metaphor
independent clause
Imagery
elegy
41. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
chronological sequence
Activating Prior Knowledge
Scaffolding
compound sentence
42. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
bar graph
compound sentence
free verse
homophone
43. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
allegory
Irony
novel
Henry David Thoreau
44. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
mystery
legend
George Orwell
expository
45. A word that takes the place of a noun
pronoun
Alice Walker
sentence fragment
present tense verb
46. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
Modeling
George Herbert
Antecedent
persuasive
47. 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.
compound complex sentence
prepositional phrase
Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
48. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
sonnet
synecdoche
Emily Dickinson
chronological sequence
49. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
mood
Ray Bradbury
tone
Jane Austen
50. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Subject Verb Agreement
Allusion
apostrophe
line graph