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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
short story
Dialect
sonnet
dependent clause
2. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Mary Shelley
Walt Whitman
couplet
William Shakespeare
3. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
personification
exclamatory sentence
William Shakespeare
Metaphysical poets
4. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
present perfect verb
Cliche
cause and effect
symbolism
5. 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).
J.R.R. Tolkein
Edgar Allan Poe
bar graph
compound complex sentence
6. A sentence that asks a question
Mark Twain
interrogative sentence
Dialect
Zora Neale Hurston
7. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Maya Angelou
Foreshadowing
appositive
persuasive
8. 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
Metaphysical poets
dependent clause
J.R.R. Tolkein
past tense verb
9. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
paradox
style
Herman Melville
harlem renaissance
10. 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
past perfect verb
limerick
Analogy
present perfect verb
11. A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century - who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them; favored intellect over emotions
Simile
Metaphysical poets
myth
Transcendentalism
12. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
Building Metacognition
John Keats
Walt Whitman
13. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
bar graph
tone
Amy Tan
spatial sequence
14. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
expository
past perfect verb
Ray Bradbury
harlem renaissance
15. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
Jane Austen
free verse
Transcendentalism
16. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
prepositional phrase
sonnet
short story
dependent clause
17. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Maya Angelou
Countee Cullen
Amy Tan
adjective
18. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
exclamatory sentence
appositive
fable
Metaphysical poets
19. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Foreshadowing
J.R.R. Tolkein
adjective
Diction
20. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
present tense verb
sentence fragment
collective noun
21. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
elegy
compound sentence
appeal to emotion
hyperbole
22. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
appeal to authority
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
apostrophe
23. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Dialect
William Shakespeare
Characterization
Maya Angelou
24. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
John Keats
Questioning
Alliteration
extended metaphor
25. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
extended metaphor
participial
Mary Shelley
future perfect verb
26. 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'
William Shakespeare
interrogative sentence
metonymy
Participle
27. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
Allusion
free verse
appeal to authority
Zora Neale Hurston
28. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
metonymy
pie chart
Percy Bysshe Shelley
limerick
29. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Participle
Questioning
Mary Shelley
Andrew Marvell
30. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
creative
Mary Shelley
Harper Lee
past perfect verb
31. 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
style
participial
Countee Cullen
verb
32. A sentence that requests or commands
extended metaphor
William Shakespeare
imperative sentence
Diction
33. 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
fable
Activating Prior Knowledge
harlem renaissance
Langston Hughes
34. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Analogy
J. D. Salinger
infinitive
Epic
35. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
harlem renaissance
line graph
folk tale
Diction
36. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Herman Melville
paradox
compound sentence
simple sentence
37. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Andrew Marvell
past tense verb
tone
compound complex sentence
38. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
couplet
John Keats
historical fiction
Simile
39. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
spatial sequence
Anne Frank
expository
adverb
40. 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
declarative sentence
Simile
Alice Walker
41. Original and imaginative
creative
mood
conjunction
homophone
42. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Langston Hughes
pronoun
Harper Lee
persuasive
43. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
declarative sentence
common noun
active verb
compound complex sentence
44. A word that takes the place of a noun
Simile
pronoun
Countee Cullen
verb
45. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Walt Whitman
tone
collective noun
Percy Bysshe Shelley
46. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
Transcendentalism
apostrophe
expository
Ray Bradbury
47. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Jane Austen
complex sentence
present tense verb
John Donne
48. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Ray Bradbury
Characterization
Harper Lee
pie chart
49. Extreme exaggeration
metonymy
hyperbole
past perfect verb
appositive
50. 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.
synecdoche
haiku
paradox
folk tale