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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. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
pronoun
declarative sentence
past tense verb
Maya Angelou
2. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
exclamatory sentence
fairy tale
Alice Walker
3. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
prepositional phrase
science fiction
John Donne
Modeling
4. 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
past perfect verb
Langston Hughes
bar graph
past tense verb
5. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
common noun
George Herbert
present tense verb
Langston Hughes
6. 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
exclamatory sentence
compound complex sentence
Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. S. Lewis
7. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Willa Cather
William Shakespeare
declarative sentence
science fiction
8. 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
dependent clause
extended metaphor
harlem renaissance
John Keats
9. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
personification
infinitive
preposition
compound complex sentence
10. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
harlem renaissance
Jane Austen
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
11. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
metonymy
pie chart
hyperbole
infinitive
12. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Analogy
J.R.R. Tolkein
collective noun
complex sentence
13. 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).
common noun
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
persuasive
14. Expresses action or state of being
symbolism
verb
independent clause
harlem renaissance
15. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
synecdoche
point of view
noun
J.R.R. Tolkein
16. A sentence that asks a question
Allusion
collective noun
passive verb
interrogative sentence
17. A sentence that requests or commands
homophone
past tense verb
imperative sentence
hyperbole
18. 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
future perfect verb
sentence fragment
British Romantics
Imagery
19. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
harlem renaissance
passive verb
appeal to authority
20. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
haiku
Epic
Langston Hughes
Modeling
21. 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'
Modeling
imperative sentence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
22. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Scaffolding
passive verb
J.R.R. Tolkein
Maya Angelou
23. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
couplet
common noun
bar graph
Henry David Thoreau
24. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
science fiction
Amy Tan
British Romantics
appeal to emotion
25. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Foreshadowing
folk tale
personification
apostrophe
26. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Zora Neale Hurston
Dialect
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
27. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
extended metaphor
Subject Verb Agreement
Percy Bysshe Shelley
noun
28. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
line graph
synecdoche
limerick
Subject Verb Agreement
29. A phrase beginning with a preposition
Dialect
Foreshadowing
prepositional phrase
mood
30. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
style
past perfect verb
Emily Dickinson
historical fiction
31. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Building Metacognition
independent clause
active verb
Modeling
32. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
hyperbole
George Herbert
metonymy
Harper Lee
33. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
historical fiction
Countee Cullen
chronological sequence
mood
34. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Amy Tan
persuasive
interrogative sentence
simple sentence
35. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
complex sentence
Participle
Langston Hughes
active verb
36. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
metonymy
Characterization
legend
historical fiction
37. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Amy Tan
proper noun
legend
Mary Shelley
38. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
J.R.R. Tolkein
line graph
extended metaphor
chronological sequence
39. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Dialect
passive verb
fable
Subject Verb Agreement
40. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Herman Melville
Epic
J.R.R. Tolkein
George Orwell
41. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
homophone
couplet
interrogative sentence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Modeling
Harper Lee
legend
Alice Walker
43. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Analogy
pie chart
dependent clause
passive verb
44. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
allegory
C. S. Lewis
Ray Bradbury
legend
45. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
point of view
Langston Hughes
sonnet
novel
46. 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'
passive verb
Countee Cullen
Metaphysical poets
Henry David Thoreau
47. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
bar graph
point of view
F. Scott Fitzgerald
48. Extreme exaggeration
George Herbert
hyperbole
Maya Angelou
John Keats
49. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
exclamatory sentence
spatial sequence
fable
expository
50. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
chronological sequence
Epic
proper noun
Percy Bysshe Shelley