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Praxis 2 English Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
present perfect verb
Countee Cullen
Mary Shelley
Antecedent
2. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Harper Lee
Characterization
Countee Cullen
dependent clause
3. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Andrew Marvell
couplet
J. D. Salinger
Transcendentalism
4. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
J.R.R. Tolkein
Dialect
conjunction
appositive
5. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Jane Austen
appositive
Herman Melville
6. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
past perfect verb
active verb
Modeling
science fiction
7. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
Dialect
Modeling
verb
spatial sequence
8. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Edgar Allan Poe
dependent clause
Activating Prior Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau
9. 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
Dialect
Emily Dickinson
William Shakespeare
Participle
10. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
Herman Melville
harlem renaissance
Simile
11. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
personification
Anne Frank
symbolism
apostrophe
12. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
Harper Lee
noun
preposition
expository
13. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
declarative sentence
Imagery
Willa Cather
Participle
14. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
future perfect verb
Countee Cullen
expository
synecdoche
15. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
appositive
Metaphysical poets
Modeling
Maya Angelou
16. 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
Countee Cullen
style
sentence fragment
John Keats
17. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
Countee Cullen
setting
synecdoche
elegy
18. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Edgar Allan Poe
Diction
Zora Neale Hurston
John Keats
19. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
paradox
voice
folk tale
future perfect verb
20. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
present perfect verb
Jane Austen
Diction
21. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
adjective
Antecedent
Walt Whitman
Subject Verb Agreement
22. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
harlem renaissance
appeal to authority
F. Scott Fitzgerald
imperative sentence
23. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Foreshadowing
cause and effect
Participle
24. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
legend
mood
short story
exclamatory sentence
25. Extreme exaggeration
common noun
hyperbole
historical fiction
harlem renaissance
26. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
symbol
homophone
couplet
Participle
27. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
compare and contrast
past perfect verb
Participle
synecdoche
28. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
myth
Harper Lee
George Orwell
tone
29. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
tone
Ray Bradbury
Jane Austen
exclamatory sentence
30. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
creative
Robert Frost
collective noun
novel
31. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Alice Walker
personification
pie chart
Zora Neale Hurston
32. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
point of view
Foreshadowing
myth
Willa Cather
33. Tell how things are alike and different
verb
compare and contrast
personification
bar graph
34. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
appeal to emotion
J.R.R. Tolkein
C. S. Lewis
couplet
35. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Epic
allegory
Willa Cather
present tense verb
36. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
participial
limerick
noun
compound sentence
37. 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
C. S. Lewis
adverb
preposition
active verb
38. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
appeal to authority
Walt Whitman
prepositional phrase
Participle
39. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
point of view
prepositional phrase
Alliteration
40. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Willa Cather
point of view
Transcendentalism
conjunction
41. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
style
fairy tale
personification
George Orwell
42. Expresses action or state of being
John Keats
verb
William Shakespeare
preposition
43. 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
verb
bar graph
Langston Hughes
limerick
44. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
bar graph
prepositional phrase
Herman Melville
45. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
common noun
persuasive
Maya Angelou
cause and effect
46. 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
cause and effect
Stephen Crane
compare and contrast
47. 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'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Participle
compound complex sentence
active verb
48. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
limerick
harlem renaissance
point of view
George Herbert
49. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
Robert Frost
Herman Melville
adverb
science fiction
50. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Alice Walker
Mark Twain
active verb
John Donne