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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)
Mary Shelley
spatial sequence
noun
Scaffolding
2. 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
pie chart
personification
Metaphysical poets
bar graph
3. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
elegy
chronological sequence
Epic
Analogy
4. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Emily Dickinson
Jane Austen
Walt Whitman
Amy Tan
5. 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
John Keats
F. Scott Fitzgerald
adjective
6. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
creative
adjective
Epic
compound sentence
7. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
appeal to emotion
Harper Lee
dependent clause
verb
8. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
Herman Melville
apostrophe
Characterization
9. 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'
short story
John Keats
Robert Frost
Henry David Thoreau
10. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
Irony
Ralph Waldo Emerson
paradox
voice
11. 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.
adverb
simple sentence
Participle
haiku
12. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
adjective
George Orwell
simple sentence
William Shakespeare
13. 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
sentence fragment
folk tale
present perfect verb
Stephen Crane
14. 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
homophone
fairy tale
legend
British Romantics
15. 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
persuasive
Mary Shelley
present perfect verb
16. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Characterization
mystery
fable
Stephen Crane
17. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
J.R.R. Tolkein
George Orwell
spatial sequence
short story
18. 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
Transcendentalism
fable
Imagery
chronological sequence
19. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
John Donne
compound complex sentence
folk tale
Antecedent
20. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
couplet
Harper Lee
independent clause
setting
21. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
preposition
sentence fragment
apostrophe
Epic
22. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
infinitive
appositive
mystery
Edgar Allan Poe
23. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
noun
Countee Cullen
novel
British Romantics
24. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
voice
science fiction
harlem renaissance
pie chart
25. 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
novel
past perfect verb
short story
dependent clause
26. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
appositive
Mark Twain
John Keats
past tense verb
27. 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.
British Romantics
allegory
Percy Bysshe Shelley
setting
28. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
John Keats
Questioning
science fiction
Stephen Crane
29. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
novel
Ralph Waldo Emerson
noun
pronoun
30. 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
preposition
Allusion
homophone
Epic
31. A sad or mournful poem
Countee Cullen
style
mood
elegy
32. 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
John Donne
Metaphysical poets
symbolism
Scaffolding
33. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
verb
historical fiction
adverb
Building Metacognition
34. A phrase beginning with a preposition
style
prepositional phrase
chronological sequence
dependent clause
35. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
complex sentence
J. D. Salinger
mystery
Henry David Thoreau
36. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Andrew Marvell
Jane Austen
Zora Neale Hurston
mystery
37. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Harper Lee
short story
Herman Melville
folk tale
38. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
mystery
Questioning
Simile
present perfect verb
39. Tell how things are alike and different
voice
common noun
compare and contrast
John Donne
40. 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
Characterization
Andrew Marvell
pie chart
41. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
future perfect verb
past tense verb
Percy Bysshe Shelley
42. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
past tense verb
present tense verb
past perfect verb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Transcendentalism
Walt Whitman
Maya Angelou
adverb
44. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
past perfect verb
legend
extended metaphor
apostrophe
45. 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).
Subject Verb Agreement
line graph
Edgar Allan Poe
preposition
46. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
creative
symbolism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Herbert
47. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
Imagery
Characterization
complex sentence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. 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
sentence fragment
Alice Walker
George Herbert
C. S. Lewis
49. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
free verse
elegy
synecdoche
collective noun
50. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
folk tale
John Keats
J.R.R. Tolkein
expository