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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Ralph Waldo Emerson
appeal to emotion
short story
Participle
2. 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
Allusion
metaphor
limerick
metonymy
3. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
British Romantics
George Orwell
couplet
Emily Dickinson
4. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
J. D. Salinger
future perfect verb
collective noun
Foreshadowing
5. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Diction
legend
Metaphysical poets
Maya Angelou
6. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
elegy
expository
extended metaphor
7. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
expository
compound complex sentence
Ray Bradbury
Harper Lee
8. 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'
haiku
J.R.R. Tolkein
Robert Frost
Scaffolding
9. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
collective noun
Willa Cather
infinitive
10. 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
George Herbert
Stephen Crane
Simile
infinitive
11. 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
Herman Melville
Stephen Crane
simple sentence
Diction
12. verb that can be used as an adjective
participial
Emily Dickinson
J.R.R. Tolkein
Langston Hughes
13. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
Edgar Allan Poe
Scaffolding
Subject Verb Agreement
14. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Modeling
free verse
Characterization
Percy Bysshe Shelley
15. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
elegy
symbolism
proper noun
Robert Frost
16. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
Epic
Participle
noun
declarative sentence
17. 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'
declarative sentence
cause and effect
line graph
Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. 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.
symbol
Percy Bysshe Shelley
creative
Diction
19. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Questioning
personification
folk tale
Dialect
20. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
simple sentence
William Shakespeare
allegory
21. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
preposition
apostrophe
present tense verb
compound sentence
22. 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
extended metaphor
folk tale
personification
Scaffolding
23. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
style
active verb
free verse
24. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
Anne Frank
Diction
sentence fragment
Characterization
25. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Transcendentalism
Percy Bysshe Shelley
allegory
homophone
26. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Robert Frost
collective noun
adverb
pie chart
27. 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.
Building Metacognition
spatial sequence
Simile
haiku
28. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
short story
adjective
point of view
appeal to authority
29. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
John Keats
Emily Dickinson
creative
30. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
Emily Dickinson
Harper Lee
C. S. Lewis
31. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Subject Verb Agreement
extended metaphor
appeal to emotion
creative
32. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
paradox
appositive
George Orwell
common noun
33. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
line graph
symbol
tone
fairy tale
34. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
Edgar Allan Poe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
point of view
35. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Andrew Marvell
Anne Frank
infinitive
Building Metacognition
36. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Amy Tan
persuasive
appeal to emotion
extended metaphor
37. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
haiku
Mark Twain
Amy Tan
compare and contrast
38. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
point of view
allegory
apostrophe
39. A word that takes the place of a noun
Participle
pronoun
Willa Cather
John Donne
40. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Ray Bradbury
fairy tale
mood
John Keats
41. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
George Herbert
compound complex sentence
science fiction
paradox
42. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
Imagery
compare and contrast
appeal to emotion
Walt Whitman
43. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Mary Shelley
folk tale
Allusion
extended metaphor
44. Extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
dependent clause
allegory
mystery
45. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
infinitive
active verb
compound complex sentence
personification
46. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
legend
George Herbert
extended metaphor
line graph
47. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Irony
future perfect verb
sonnet
William Shakespeare
48. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
haiku
Simile
Anne Frank
simple sentence
49. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
myth
Participle
pronoun
declarative sentence
50. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
expository
simple sentence
Cliche
symbol