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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. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
Scaffolding
compound sentence
John Keats
2. 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'
J. D. Salinger
elegy
Robert Frost
pronoun
3. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
mood
historical fiction
Imagery
Ray Bradbury
4. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
imperative sentence
voice
homophone
common noun
5. 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
chronological sequence
Analogy
participial
6. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Scaffolding
appositive
present perfect verb
persuasive
7. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
folk tale
sonnet
compound complex sentence
present tense verb
8. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
present tense verb
Harper Lee
Amy Tan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
metaphor
appositive
appeal to authority
Amy Tan
10. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
folk tale
sentence fragment
voice
John Keats
11. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
harlem renaissance
Analogy
Alice Walker
compare and contrast
12. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Allusion
harlem renaissance
active verb
voice
13. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
compound sentence
line graph
John Keats
metaphor
14. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
J. D. Salinger
Ralph Waldo Emerson
allegory
adverb
15. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
Scaffolding
Anne Frank
mood
16. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
pie chart
style
Zora Neale Hurston
Irony
17. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula
Emily Dickinson
Activating Prior Knowledge
J. D. Salinger
George Orwell
18. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
declarative sentence
Building Metacognition
pie chart
synecdoche
19. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Analogy
imperative sentence
science fiction
style
20. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
short story
spatial sequence
allegory
Activating Prior Knowledge
21. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
infinitive
appeal to emotion
hyperbole
Dialect
22. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
Alliteration
symbol
sentence fragment
appositive
23. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
homophone
Questioning
expository
Alliteration
24. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Andrew Marvell
present perfect verb
Subject Verb Agreement
Simile
25. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Jane Austen
Zora Neale Hurston
myth
Transcendentalism
26. 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.
Countee Cullen
appeal to authority
haiku
C. S. Lewis
27. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Countee Cullen
apostrophe
symbol
J. D. Salinger
28. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
mood
Mary Shelley
complex sentence
tone
29. 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
participial
independent clause
Robert Frost
30. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
hyperbole
Dialect
complex sentence
fable
31. 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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
historical fiction
Emily Dickinson
chronological sequence
32. 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
simple sentence
preposition
compound complex sentence
setting
33. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
William Shakespeare
compound sentence
Subject Verb Agreement
mystery
34. 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
Activating Prior Knowledge
dependent clause
C. S. Lewis
35. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
Simile
science fiction
bar graph
prepositional phrase
36. 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
J.R.R. Tolkein
Antecedent
prepositional phrase
free verse
37. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
folk tale
Edgar Allan Poe
Metaphysical poets
38. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
personification
appeal to emotion
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
common noun
harlem renaissance
exclamatory sentence
line graph
40. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
folk tale
Subject Verb Agreement
Participle
metaphor
41. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
independent clause
future perfect verb
John Donne
harlem renaissance
42. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
imperative sentence
Willa Cather
conjunction
Activating Prior Knowledge
43. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
setting
John Keats
Ray Bradbury
44. 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
Irony
conjunction
British Romantics
historical fiction
45. 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
symbol
J.R.R. Tolkein
Scaffolding
future perfect verb
46. 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
harlem renaissance
past tense verb
C. S. Lewis
active verb
47. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
complex sentence
simple sentence
symbol
active verb
48. 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
Activating Prior Knowledge
sonnet
conjunction
49. A sentence that asks a question
myth
Mark Twain
past perfect verb
interrogative sentence
50. 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
infinitive
symbolism
compound sentence
Maya Angelou