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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
creative
Metaphysical poets
metaphor
persuasive
2. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Modeling
apostrophe
sentence fragment
synecdoche
3. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
appeal to authority
Percy Bysshe Shelley
voice
Zora Neale Hurston
4. Two consecutive rhyming lines
pie chart
John Keats
couplet
Herman Melville
5. An English writer - poet - philologist - and university professor - best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit - The Lord of the Rings - and The Silmarillion
Amy Tan
J.R.R. Tolkein
Henry David Thoreau
Alice Walker
6. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
legend
Amy Tan
Participle
7. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
science fiction
Activating Prior Knowledge
Allusion
free verse
8. 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.
pie chart
Building Metacognition
Irony
Percy Bysshe Shelley
9. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
appeal to emotion
synecdoche
Metaphysical poets
F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
John Keats
historical fiction
noun
compound complex sentence
11. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
Robert Frost
passive verb
compound complex sentence
symbolism
12. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
Antecedent
Ray Bradbury
symbolism
Simile
13. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
expository
setting
noun
Langston Hughes
14. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Analogy
personification
British Romantics
apostrophe
15. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
setting
Mary Shelley
Characterization
fairy tale
16. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
dependent clause
line graph
couplet
Simile
17. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
sonnet
style
Harper Lee
18. 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
legend
style
dependent clause
Scaffolding
19. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
expository
Zora Neale Hurston
Building Metacognition
pie chart
20. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Epic
present perfect verb
Stephen Crane
Willa Cather
21. 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
Irony
Diction
John Keats
William Shakespeare
22. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
spatial sequence
compound sentence
Foreshadowing
Emily Dickinson
23. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
fairy tale
Andrew Marvell
future perfect verb
proper noun
24. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
style
Countee Cullen
Imagery
Dialect
25. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
science fiction
paradox
past perfect verb
creative
26. 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
Stephen Crane
Allusion
chronological sequence
interrogative sentence
27. Extreme exaggeration
complex sentence
Mark Twain
hyperbole
appeal to emotion
28. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
metonymy
appositive
appeal to authority
apostrophe
29. 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
Langston Hughes
legend
fable
myth
30. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
symbolism
conjunction
free verse
persuasive
31. American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature - as demonstrated in his book - Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writi
Walt Whitman
historical fiction
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Foreshadowing
32. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
historical fiction
appeal to authority
apostrophe
Irony
33. A worn - out idea or overused expression
symbolism
declarative sentence
Cliche
Herman Melville
34. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
John Keats
Henry David Thoreau
Irony
Countee Cullen
35. 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
British Romantics
compare and contrast
imperative sentence
C. S. Lewis
36. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
appositive
future perfect verb
appeal to authority
past tense verb
37. 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'
persuasive
infinitive
Analogy
Robert Frost
38. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Anne Frank
myth
tone
appositive
39. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
metonymy
bar graph
adjective
pronoun
40. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
Epic
point of view
active verb
compound sentence
41. 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'
myth
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
legend
42. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
collective noun
Questioning
Henry David Thoreau
compound sentence
43. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Zora Neale Hurston
allegory
sentence fragment
F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. 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
Mark Twain
Transcendentalism
verb
Diction
45. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
simple sentence
setting
Robert Frost
haiku
46. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
British Romantics
collective noun
Epic
declarative sentence
47. Was an English poet and playwright - widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre - eminent dramatist; major works include 'Romeo and Juliet' 'Othello' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Walt Whitman
William Shakespeare
British Romantics
sentence fragment
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
cause and effect
Scaffolding
John Keats
proper noun
49. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Stephen Crane
interrogative sentence
J. D. Salinger
preposition
50. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Questioning
Antecedent
British Romantics
Stephen Crane