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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people






2. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring






3. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse






4. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)






5. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements






6. A sad or mournful poem






7. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action






8. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things






9. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'






10. 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






11. 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






12. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished






13. 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'






14. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.






15. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'






16. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction






17. A verb that tells that something is happening now.






18. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany






19. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)






20. Two consecutive rhyming lines






21. 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






22. 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'






23. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.






24. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time






25. Extreme exaggeration






26. A short moral story (often with animal characters)






27. 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






28. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.






29. names a particular person - place - thing or idea






30. 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






31. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)






32. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea






33. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti






34. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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






38. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)






39. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun






40. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)






41. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions






42. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses






43. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning






44. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'






45. A word that takes the place of a noun






46. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'






47. 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.






48. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part






49. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.






50. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.