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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
appeal to emotion
metonymy
Emily Dickinson
compound complex sentence
2. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
apostrophe
pie chart
Henry David Thoreau
metonymy
3. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
J. D. Salinger
line graph
adjective
exclamatory sentence
4. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
setting
mystery
past tense verb
simple sentence
5. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
appeal to authority
homophone
Walt Whitman
participial
6. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
expository
Metaphysical poets
legend
homophone
7. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
John Donne
cause and effect
historical fiction
Scaffolding
8. 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
folk tale
Foreshadowing
Edgar Allan Poe
9. 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
Foreshadowing
imperative sentence
Transcendentalism
line graph
10. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
past tense verb
Amy Tan
George Herbert
complex sentence
11. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Langston Hughes
bar graph
Subject Verb Agreement
George Herbert
12. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
metaphor
spatial sequence
Jane Austen
exclamatory sentence
13. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
expository
Transcendentalism
collective noun
noun
14. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Henry David Thoreau
John Keats
compound sentence
Diction
15. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Metaphysical poets
pronoun
Herman Melville
allegory
16. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
compound complex sentence
Walt Whitman
present tense verb
mood
17. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
cause and effect
adverb
synecdoche
Building Metacognition
18. A following of one thing after another in time
appeal to emotion
future perfect verb
chronological sequence
Anne Frank
19. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
cause and effect
sonnet
active verb
declarative sentence
20. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
present tense verb
Participle
proper noun
line graph
21. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Edgar Allan Poe
Andrew Marvell
Subject Verb Agreement
free verse
22. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
George Herbert
Zora Neale Hurston
Mary Shelley
fable
23. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
dependent clause
metaphor
spatial sequence
24. 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
past tense verb
preposition
Jane Austen
C. S. Lewis
25. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Percy Bysshe Shelley
metaphor
extended metaphor
couplet
26. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
pronoun
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Percy Bysshe Shelley
27. 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
future perfect verb
hyperbole
limerick
Simile
28. 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
British Romantics
Percy Bysshe Shelley
preposition
C. S. Lewis
29. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
creative
bar graph
fairy tale
proper noun
30. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
adverb
Participle
myth
Willa Cather
31. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
paradox
compound complex sentence
Ray Bradbury
metaphor
32. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Countee Cullen
Robert Frost
harlem renaissance
Alliteration
33. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
expository
pronoun
appositive
Antecedent
34. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
Stephen Crane
bar graph
Activating Prior Knowledge
complex sentence
35. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
creative
collective noun
Langston Hughes
appositive
36. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
line graph
Characterization
expository
John Keats
37. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Mark Twain
myth
spatial sequence
Irony
38. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Jane Austen
Diction
Mary Shelley
interrogative sentence
39. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Activating Prior Knowledge
Questioning
Participle
haiku
40. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Harper Lee
collective noun
cause and effect
metaphor
41. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Modeling
Mary Shelley
Zora Neale Hurston
appeal to emotion
42. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
declarative sentence
prepositional phrase
voice
cause and effect
43. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
voice
point of view
Irony
harlem renaissance
44. Tell how things are alike and different
metonymy
compare and contrast
British Romantics
mood
45. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Foreshadowing
chronological sequence
homophone
Scaffolding
46. A sentence that requests or commands
Harper Lee
George Herbert
imperative sentence
British Romantics
47. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
appositive
fable
allegory
cause and effect
48. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
compound sentence
Andrew Marvell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modeling
49. 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
extended metaphor
appeal to emotion
Walt Whitman
homophone
50. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
Willa Cather
Zora Neale Hurston
independent clause