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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
Irony
harlem renaissance
collective noun
2. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
declarative sentence
noun
prepositional phrase
Anne Frank
3. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
point of view
expository
George Herbert
Transcendentalism
4. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
chronological sequence
compound complex sentence
tone
Mary Shelley
5. A kind of humorous verse of five lines - in which the first - second - and fifth lines rhyme with each other - and the third and fourth lines - which are shorter - form a rhymed couplet
limerick
elegy
myth
Subject Verb Agreement
6. Original and imaginative
F. Scott Fitzgerald
present perfect verb
creative
appeal to authority
7. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
creative
chronological sequence
George Orwell
8. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
expository
harlem renaissance
C. S. Lewis
9. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
limerick
extended metaphor
bar graph
George Herbert
10. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
limerick
symbol
Epic
Herman Melville
11. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
compound sentence
George Herbert
prepositional phrase
homophone
12. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
verb
F. Scott Fitzgerald
appeal to authority
pronoun
13. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
interrogative sentence
Participle
appeal to emotion
compound sentence
14. 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
Questioning
infinitive
noun
common noun
15. 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
haiku
Ray Bradbury
Metaphysical poets
expository
16. A sentence that asks a question
noun
Metaphysical poets
passive verb
interrogative sentence
17. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
elegy
J. D. Salinger
adjective
John Keats
18. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
passive verb
paradox
Diction
J. D. Salinger
19. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Ray Bradbury
Foreshadowing
C. S. Lewis
Alice Walker
20. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
legend
chronological sequence
homophone
fairy tale
21. 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
Stephen Crane
Ralph Waldo Emerson
British Romantics
Imagery
22. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
synecdoche
J.R.R. Tolkein
Simile
style
23. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
setting
paradox
creative
prepositional phrase
24. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
J.R.R. Tolkein
verb
infinitive
25. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
interrogative sentence
common noun
Subject Verb Agreement
appeal to authority
26. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
pronoun
Simile
short story
William Shakespeare
27. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Henry David Thoreau
Alice Walker
Alliteration
appositive
28. 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'
present tense verb
Cliche
Henry David Thoreau
pronoun
29. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
simple sentence
metaphor
Amy Tan
Dialect
30. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
fable
Diction
adverb
Maya Angelou
31. A phrase beginning with a preposition
Maya Angelou
Stephen Crane
metonymy
prepositional phrase
32. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
creative
chronological sequence
Epic
33. 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'
Stephen Crane
Zora Neale Hurston
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Frost
34. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
compound complex sentence
mystery
Allusion
Maya Angelou
35. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Willa Cather
persuasive
Transcendentalism
voice
36. 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
Analogy
style
Characterization
37. 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
Emily Dickinson
past tense verb
setting
38. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
elegy
Andrew Marvell
Dialect
creative
39. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Langston Hughes
Herman Melville
fairy tale
bar graph
40. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
point of view
prepositional phrase
appositive
complex sentence
41. 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'
compound sentence
haiku
Andrew Marvell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
simple sentence
haiku
John Donne
declarative sentence
43. Tell how things are alike and different
Questioning
compare and contrast
present perfect verb
J. D. Salinger
44. comparison not using like or as; a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
homophone
synecdoche
metaphor
J. D. Salinger
45. A major form of Japanese verse - written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5 - 7 - and 5 syllables - and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons - often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
couplet
Mark Twain
haiku
Ray Bradbury
46. 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
harlem renaissance
Herman Melville
Jane Austen
dependent clause
47. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
present perfect verb
legend
declarative sentence
George Herbert
48. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
point of view
folk tale
Emily Dickinson
49. A word that takes the place of a noun
pronoun
mystery
short story
cause and effect
50. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Willa Cather
chronological sequence
present tense verb
tone