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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. American gothic writer known especially for his macabre poems - such as 'The Raven' (1845) - and short stories - including 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1839).
Maya Angelou
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Allusion
2. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
appositive
complex sentence
John Keats
expository
3. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
independent clause
Epic
Anne Frank
Imagery
4. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Alice Walker
creative
Building Metacognition
Andrew Marvell
5. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
chronological sequence
Stephen Crane
proper noun
spatial sequence
6. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
preposition
Herman Melville
allegory
homophone
7. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
metonymy
symbolism
Cliche
Herman Melville
8. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
past tense verb
personification
adverb
proper noun
9. Tell how things are alike and different
Andrew Marvell
allegory
Harper Lee
compare and contrast
10. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
allegory
sonnet
11. 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
harlem renaissance
adjective
John Keats
imperative sentence
12. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Stephen Crane
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jane Austen
complex sentence
13. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Andrew Marvell
Willa Cather
Simile
14. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
folk tale
Zora Neale Hurston
Cliche
15. 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
Antecedent
Transcendentalism
verb
compare and contrast
16. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
voice
Antecedent
Herman Melville
Allusion
17. A sentence that asks a question
adjective
mood
interrogative sentence
metonymy
18. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
adverb
George Orwell
sentence fragment
19. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
sonnet
science fiction
preposition
George Orwell
20. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
symbolism
legend
Epic
Characterization
21. 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
Metaphysical poets
apostrophe
line graph
Cliche
22. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
harlem renaissance
Jane Austen
British Romantics
short story
23. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
mood
Subject Verb Agreement
novel
compound complex sentence
24. verb that can be used as an adjective
cause and effect
conjunction
Andrew Marvell
participial
25. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
pie chart
metonymy
Participle
simple sentence
26. 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'
Willa Cather
noun
harlem renaissance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
fairy tale
Countee Cullen
Willa Cather
expository
28. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
compound complex sentence
George Herbert
noun
interrogative sentence
29. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Anne Frank
Simile
couplet
Willa Cather
30. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Irony
J. D. Salinger
imperative sentence
31. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Participle
voice
Diction
sonnet
32. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
symbolism
style
Andrew Marvell
noun
33. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
Percy Bysshe Shelley
homophone
past perfect verb
complex sentence
34. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
free verse
future perfect verb
past tense verb
independent clause
35. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialect
mystery
prepositional phrase
science fiction
36. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Irony
Questioning
symbol
George Orwell
37. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
mood
adverb
proper noun
38. 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'
participial
paradox
adverb
William Shakespeare
39. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
future perfect verb
style
present perfect verb
Questioning
40. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
simple sentence
Imagery
compound sentence
novel
41. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
harlem renaissance
present perfect verb
Questioning
Anne Frank
42. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
Walt Whitman
line graph
mystery
expository
43. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
Allusion
Stephen Crane
point of view
style
44. 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'
Metaphysical poets
Robert Frost
George Herbert
common noun
45. 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
active verb
Stephen Crane
proper noun
C. S. Lewis
46. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
paradox
Analogy
Henry David Thoreau
Percy Bysshe Shelley
47. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Alice Walker
Willa Cather
Antecedent
elegy
48. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
style
Henry David Thoreau
Allusion
cause and effect
49. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Simile
Analogy
Epic
synecdoche
50. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
metonymy
bar graph
myth
preposition