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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
passive verb
setting
adjective
allegory
2. African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance - as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissa
adjective
harlem renaissance
Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
3. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
present tense verb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. S. Lewis
Allusion
4. 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
adjective
Robert Frost
C. S. Lewis
collective noun
5. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
British Romantics
complex sentence
future perfect verb
exclamatory sentence
6. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
present perfect verb
style
John Keats
paradox
7. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
compare and contrast
novel
Zora Neale Hurston
Percy Bysshe Shelley
8. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
sonnet
Foreshadowing
Alice Walker
Transcendentalism
9. A word that takes the place of a noun
setting
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Orwell
pronoun
10. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
future perfect verb
adjective
Allusion
11. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
myth
Amy Tan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
adverb
12. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
pronoun
spatial sequence
present perfect verb
fairy tale
13. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Scaffolding
Amy Tan
appeal to emotion
George Herbert
14. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Simile
William Shakespeare
harlem renaissance
Alice Walker
15. 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
John Donne
J. D. Salinger
infinitive
Anne Frank
16. A sentence that requests or commands
sentence fragment
haiku
imperative sentence
Modeling
17. Extreme exaggeration
active verb
Zora Neale Hurston
hyperbole
Participle
18. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
simple sentence
John Keats
Transcendentalism
Mark Twain
19. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
expository
Epic
J.R.R. Tolkein
synecdoche
20. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
Edgar Allan Poe
paradox
past tense verb
Amy Tan
21. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Antecedent
compare and contrast
homophone
line graph
22. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
sentence fragment
dependent clause
mystery
Scaffolding
23. 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'
future perfect verb
symbol
Robert Frost
present tense verb
24. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
noun
Emily Dickinson
metaphor
Alliteration
25. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
fable
Alliteration
Foreshadowing
26. 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
compound complex sentence
George Orwell
Participle
27. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
past tense verb
John Donne
present perfect verb
science fiction
28. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Building Metacognition
proper noun
allegory
Willa Cather
29. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
Analogy
George Herbert
point of view
preposition
30. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Harper Lee
C. S. Lewis
Simile
Epic
31. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
expository
Modeling
persuasive
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Subject Verb Agreement
extended metaphor
appeal to emotion
declarative sentence
33. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
sonnet
proper noun
hyperbole
Stephen Crane
34. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Mary Shelley
Amy Tan
J. D. Salinger
free verse
35. A sentence that asks a question
mystery
paradox
Zora Neale Hurston
interrogative sentence
36. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
Subject Verb Agreement
Activating Prior Knowledge
Walt Whitman
past perfect verb
37. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
fairy tale
Characterization
point of view
Dialect
38. 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.
sonnet
J.R.R. Tolkein
Diction
Percy Bysshe Shelley
39. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Analogy
setting
fable
F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
past tense verb
voice
Langston Hughes
personification
41. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
appositive
Antecedent
voice
novel
42. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Alice Walker
noun
expository
novel
43. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
active verb
Langston Hughes
Simile
point of view
44. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
elegy
past tense verb
proper noun
folk tale
45. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
C. S. Lewis
Subject Verb Agreement
Stephen Crane
spatial sequence
46. Original and imaginative
Maya Angelou
creative
Analogy
homophone
47. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
Henry David Thoreau
haiku
free verse
bar graph
48. 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
John Donne
Henry David Thoreau
Allusion
49. A sad or mournful poem
elegy
collective noun
Participle
Simile
50. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
harlem renaissance
historical fiction
Building Metacognition
science fiction