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Praxis 2 English Literature
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1. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Alice Walker
Imagery
persuasive
George Orwell
2. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
adjective
extended metaphor
Transcendentalism
point of view
3. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Subject Verb Agreement
Willa Cather
fable
pronoun
4. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
present perfect verb
Alliteration
symbol
apostrophe
5. A phrase beginning with a preposition
prepositional phrase
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Allusion
Transcendentalism
6. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Activating Prior Knowledge
Diction
spatial sequence
William Shakespeare
7. 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
setting
Walt Whitman
Scaffolding
interrogative sentence
8. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
bar graph
historical fiction
Robert Frost
free verse
9. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
John Keats
exclamatory sentence
Diction
C. S. Lewis
10. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
Andrew Marvell
John Keats
symbol
11. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Allusion
Questioning
haiku
compare and contrast
12. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
Walt Whitman
metaphor
compound complex sentence
J. D. Salinger
13. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
haiku
John Donne
Stephen Crane
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
preposition
Dialect
couplet
Maya Angelou
15. verb that can be used as an adjective
F. Scott Fitzgerald
prepositional phrase
Irony
participial
16. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
hyperbole
personification
George Orwell
interrogative sentence
17. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
Mark Twain
active verb
George Orwell
18. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
compound sentence
appeal to emotion
Henry David Thoreau
voice
19. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
harlem renaissance
homophone
voice
Participle
20. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
homophone
appositive
setting
compound complex sentence
21. A sentence that asks a question
exclamatory sentence
chronological sequence
interrogative sentence
Langston Hughes
22. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Questioning
appeal to emotion
symbol
couplet
23. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
elegy
Characterization
prepositional phrase
24. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
Mary Shelley
Irony
complex sentence
synecdoche
25. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
appeal to emotion
independent clause
harlem renaissance
Building Metacognition
26. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
collective noun
symbol
bar graph
Building Metacognition
27. 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'
proper noun
Edgar Allan Poe
conjunction
Henry David Thoreau
28. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
preposition
participial
free verse
past perfect verb
29. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
pie chart
Emily Dickinson
style
Dialect
30. 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
Langston Hughes
Building Metacognition
compound complex sentence
31. 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
dependent clause
Simile
style
Cliche
32. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
noun
sentence fragment
mood
future perfect verb
33. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
collective noun
Mary Shelley
John Keats
Herman Melville
34. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
line graph
folk tale
conjunction
Harper Lee
35. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
expository
point of view
imperative sentence
metonymy
36. 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
independent clause
Modeling
metaphor
elegy
37. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
mystery
limerick
spatial sequence
Analogy
38. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
personification
Cliche
interrogative sentence
Mary Shelley
39. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
Dialect
Harper Lee
tone
cause and effect
40. 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
John Keats
Ray Bradbury
exclamatory sentence
41. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
J. D. Salinger
limerick
present perfect verb
adverb
42. Original and imaginative
homophone
appositive
creative
infinitive
43. 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
hyperbole
Participle
Robert Frost
preposition
44. Extreme exaggeration
chronological sequence
hyperbole
limerick
legend
45. Expresses action or state of being
verb
collective noun
adjective
novel
46. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
Antecedent
passive verb
tone
sonnet
47. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Scaffolding
point of view
Allusion
novel
48. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
Participle
noun
synecdoche
Alice Walker
49. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
cause and effect
line graph
J. D. Salinger
symbol
50. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
Herman Melville
cause and effect
pronoun
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