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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
historical fiction
George Herbert
pronoun
Antecedent
2. Original and imaginative
Amy Tan
Antecedent
Andrew Marvell
creative
3. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
point of view
appeal to emotion
Willa Cather
John Keats
4. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
spatial sequence
Herman Melville
harlem renaissance
Activating Prior Knowledge
5. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
verb
folk tale
Jane Austen
Langston Hughes
6. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Mary Shelley
compound sentence
science fiction
adjective
7. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
John Keats
personification
extended metaphor
pie chart
8. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
novel
fairy tale
exclamatory sentence
symbol
9. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
fable
novel
style
voice
10. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
folk tale
Subject Verb Agreement
free verse
present perfect verb
11. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
Allusion
dependent clause
simple sentence
voice
12. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
metonymy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
science fiction
fairy tale
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
personification
Stephen Crane
pie chart
F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
Amy Tan
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
15. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
spatial sequence
prepositional phrase
Modeling
16. 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
haiku
collective noun
allegory
17. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
short story
cause and effect
Simile
John Keats
18. 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
Irony
limerick
Robert Frost
historical fiction
19. 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.
Willa Cather
British Romantics
setting
Percy Bysshe Shelley
20. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
harlem renaissance
haiku
Harper Lee
appeal to emotion
21. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Metaphysical poets
personification
chronological sequence
John Keats
22. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
Herman Melville
mood
compound sentence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. 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
bar graph
future perfect verb
British Romantics
extended metaphor
24. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
J. D. Salinger
Robert Frost
persuasive
Metaphysical poets
25. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
simple sentence
folk tale
limerick
Maya Angelou
26. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
elegy
infinitive
compound complex sentence
chronological sequence
27. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
voice
past tense verb
paradox
collective noun
28. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
allegory
exclamatory sentence
line graph
Zora Neale Hurston
29. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
fairy tale
Mary Shelley
Characterization
J.R.R. Tolkein
30. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
compare and contrast
Mark Twain
sonnet
collective noun
31. 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).
pie chart
folk tale
Edgar Allan Poe
C. S. Lewis
32. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
metonymy
line graph
Analogy
novel
33. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
prepositional phrase
mystery
extended metaphor
Amy Tan
34. A sentence that requests or commands
Henry David Thoreau
imperative sentence
conjunction
Analogy
35. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
tone
expository
Metaphysical poets
science fiction
36. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
metonymy
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost
37. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
allegory
passive verb
homophone
38. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
participial
appositive
Imagery
symbolism
39. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
Dialect
Participle
Henry David Thoreau
spatial sequence
40. A word that takes the place of a noun
Scaffolding
pronoun
present tense verb
conjunction
41. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
collective noun
line graph
style
Stephen Crane
42. American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature - as demonstrated in his book - Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writi
J.R.R. Tolkein
present tense verb
compound complex sentence
Walt Whitman
43. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
preposition
Characterization
British Romantics
Jane Austen
44. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
dependent clause
C. S. Lewis
collective noun
homophone
45. verb that can be used as an adjective
Irony
short story
declarative sentence
participial
46. A sentence that asks a question
interrogative sentence
Langston Hughes
Transcendentalism
expository
47. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
fairy tale
conjunction
Analogy
Harper Lee
48. comparison not using like or as; a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
metaphor
pie chart
noun
Edgar Allan Poe
49. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Maya Angelou
Antecedent
Dialect
Alice Walker
50. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
present tense verb
present perfect verb
dependent clause
Modeling