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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
John Keats
cause and effect
complex sentence
spatial sequence
2. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
free verse
dependent clause
Analogy
science fiction
3. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
independent clause
past tense verb
appeal to emotion
Scaffolding
4. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
myth
simple sentence
historical fiction
5. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
preposition
compare and contrast
Diction
symbol
6. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
past tense verb
Stephen Crane
participial
7. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
preposition
Imagery
Antecedent
noun
8. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Antecedent
myth
conjunction
collective noun
9. 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
cause and effect
Irony
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. 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
verb
Modeling
Herman Melville
preposition
11. 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
symbolism
passive verb
dependent clause
Anne Frank
12. A word that takes the place of a noun
Cliche
George Herbert
pronoun
J. D. Salinger
13. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
homophone
allegory
independent clause
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Participle
Zora Neale Hurston
free verse
mood
15. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
synecdoche
allegory
future perfect verb
Ray Bradbury
16. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
past tense verb
Harper Lee
George Orwell
dependent clause
17. A sad or mournful poem
Characterization
simple sentence
adjective
elegy
18. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
hyperbole
C. S. Lewis
Transcendentalism
bar graph
19. A following of one thing after another in time
Percy Bysshe Shelley
chronological sequence
bar graph
Harper Lee
20. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
John Keats
imperative sentence
compound complex sentence
Scaffolding
21. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
past tense verb
Participle
Amy Tan
participial
22. 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
synecdoche
John Keats
couplet
Allusion
23. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
Harper Lee
voice
personification
extended metaphor
24. 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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
creative
Modeling
Ray Bradbury
25. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
historical fiction
fairy tale
Andrew Marvell
Harper Lee
26. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
William Shakespeare
Scaffolding
Robert Frost
metonymy
27. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
Dialect
conjunction
expository
Zora Neale Hurston
28. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject Verb Agreement
Analogy
Herman Melville
29. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Dialect
Questioning
John Keats
Andrew Marvell
30. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
J. D. Salinger
pronoun
Anne Frank
passive verb
31. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
mystery
simple sentence
Langston Hughes
32. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
fable
collective noun
pronoun
novel
33. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
Scaffolding
passive verb
Herman Melville
historical fiction
34. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
apostrophe
prepositional phrase
Edgar Allan Poe
35. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
adverb
hyperbole
Antecedent
Mary Shelley
36. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
setting
Alice Walker
symbol
37. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
exclamatory sentence
haiku
metonymy
appeal to emotion
38. Extreme exaggeration
Zora Neale Hurston
collective noun
hyperbole
F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
George Orwell
Simile
exclamatory sentence
imperative sentence
40. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Simile
Emily Dickinson
short story
extended metaphor
41. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
Countee Cullen
setting
present perfect verb
John Keats
42. A worn - out idea or overused expression
chronological sequence
Cliche
participial
conjunction
43. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
British Romantics
past perfect verb
J.R.R. Tolkein
Alliteration
44. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
sentence fragment
science fiction
myth
Mary Shelley
45. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
symbol
independent clause
Foreshadowing
line graph
46. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
harlem renaissance
passive verb
novel
apostrophe
47. 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
point of view
Transcendentalism
Diction
appeal to emotion
48. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
Diction
preposition
limerick
49. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Harper Lee
legend
Foreshadowing
apostrophe
50. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
adverb
C. S. Lewis
limerick
cause and effect