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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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'
sonnet
prepositional phrase
mystery
Robert Frost
2. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
Building Metacognition
Edgar Allan Poe
pronoun
present perfect verb
3. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
bar graph
haiku
F. Scott Fitzgerald
collective noun
4. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Mark Twain
homophone
Langston Hughes
Activating Prior Knowledge
5. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
legend
present tense verb
Participle
Scaffolding
6. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Scaffolding
myth
Participle
synecdoche
7. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
present tense verb
noun
preposition
complex sentence
8. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
cause and effect
compound complex sentence
Herman Melville
fable
9. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
compare and contrast
pie chart
Scaffolding
extended metaphor
10. 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
Alliteration
Antecedent
Foreshadowing
11. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
myth
extended metaphor
folk tale
John Keats
12. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
Building Metacognition
Countee Cullen
Dialect
appeal to authority
13. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
compound sentence
personification
free verse
mystery
14. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Analogy
Mary Shelley
Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson
15. 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
interrogative sentence
John Keats
imperative sentence
elegy
16. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Foreshadowing
science fiction
bar graph
George Orwell
17. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
C. S. Lewis
hyperbole
Edgar Allan Poe
18. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
Transcendentalism
metaphor
Scaffolding
conjunction
19. 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
Diction
elegy
infinitive
F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
personification
compare and contrast
collective noun
Zora Neale Hurston
21. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
George Orwell
Irony
Antecedent
paradox
22. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Simile
Willa Cather
George Orwell
science fiction
23. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
adjective
common noun
Cliche
mystery
24. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
symbolism
Transcendentalism
prepositional phrase
Herman Melville
25. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
haiku
F. Scott Fitzgerald
infinitive
Cliche
26. 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
past tense verb
preposition
short story
27. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
collective noun
sentence fragment
cause and effect
simple sentence
28. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
mood
compound complex sentence
active verb
legend
29. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Participle
Robert Frost
preposition
Zora Neale Hurston
30. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epic
Langston Hughes
Alice Walker
voice
31. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
homophone
Metaphysical poets
Herman Melville
participial
32. Original and imaginative
Amy Tan
creative
adjective
Willa Cather
33. 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
collective noun
free verse
J. D. Salinger
preposition
34. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
persuasive
synecdoche
Modeling
dependent clause
35. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
Zora Neale Hurston
tone
sonnet
point of view
36. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Foreshadowing
present tense verb
George Orwell
persuasive
37. 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
British Romantics
Scaffolding
Participle
voice
38. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
short story
Transcendentalism
imperative sentence
Maya Angelou
39. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
Stephen Crane
appeal to emotion
Langston Hughes
40. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
interrogative sentence
adverb
Analogy
Transcendentalism
41. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
bar graph
Building Metacognition
harlem renaissance
synecdoche
42. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
Maya Angelou
hyperbole
fairy tale
Irony
43. 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
Simile
expository
Jane Austen
C. S. Lewis
44. 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
pronoun
Stephen Crane
dependent clause
symbolism
45. 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
interrogative sentence
metaphor
preposition
verb
46. Extreme exaggeration
Irony
haiku
Mark Twain
hyperbole
47. Expresses action or state of being
verb
dependent clause
haiku
present perfect verb
48. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Imagery
legend
allegory
Maya Angelou
49. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
compound sentence
John Donne
Activating Prior Knowledge
present tense verb
50. 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
Subject Verb Agreement
interrogative sentence
Stephen Crane
simple sentence