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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. A sad or mournful poem
fable
dependent clause
elegy
spatial sequence
2. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
Robert Frost
historical fiction
myth
participial
3. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
simple sentence
Percy Bysshe Shelley
spatial sequence
Foreshadowing
4. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
haiku
F. Scott Fitzgerald
expository
5. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
creative
personification
Alice Walker
Participle
6. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
Langston Hughes
declarative sentence
metonymy
infinitive
7. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
extended metaphor
point of view
creative
Imagery
8. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
mood
collective noun
compound sentence
Maya Angelou
9. 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
tone
Stephen Crane
Herman Melville
exclamatory sentence
10. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
line graph
synecdoche
George Orwell
C. S. Lewis
11. 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
appositive
Building Metacognition
tone
12. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Herman Melville
Willa Cather
Metaphysical poets
Building Metacognition
13. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
voice
Edgar Allan Poe
Epic
J.R.R. Tolkein
14. 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
Scaffolding
Henry David Thoreau
hyperbole
Walt Whitman
15. 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'
Stephen Crane
Henry David Thoreau
allegory
hyperbole
16. 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
British Romantics
Amy Tan
C. S. Lewis
Emily Dickinson
17. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Stephen Crane
sonnet
Amy Tan
folk tale
18. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
active verb
proper noun
Imagery
Foreshadowing
19. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
Ray Bradbury
Harper Lee
simple sentence
20. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
independent clause
John Keats
point of view
conjunction
21. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Harper Lee
mystery
setting
fairy tale
22. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
Modeling
past tense verb
George Herbert
myth
23. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Herman Melville
preposition
common noun
past perfect verb
24. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
extended metaphor
metaphor
William Shakespeare
25. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
pie chart
Scaffolding
setting
appeal to emotion
26. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Subject Verb Agreement
symbolism
J. D. Salinger
John Keats
27. 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.
haiku
simple sentence
Stephen Crane
pie chart
28. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
appeal to authority
past perfect verb
appeal to emotion
mystery
29. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
present tense verb
Robert Frost
proper noun
common noun
30. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
appeal to authority
conjunction
myth
compound complex sentence
31. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Ralph Waldo Emerson
mood
infinitive
interrogative sentence
32. 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
complex sentence
Countee Cullen
Metaphysical poets
symbolism
33. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
persuasive
line graph
Amy Tan
Alliteration
34. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
common noun
Transcendentalism
Alliteration
35. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialect
Imagery
allegory
short story
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
dependent clause
appeal to emotion
appeal to authority
Foreshadowing
37. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
adjective
Scaffolding
homophone
persuasive
38. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
metonymy
British Romantics
pie chart
Antecedent
39. Original and imaginative
William Shakespeare
collective noun
creative
Countee Cullen
40. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
synecdoche
personification
Imagery
Andrew Marvell
41. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Herman Melville
Dialect
John Donne
creative
42. 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.
legend
Scaffolding
Henry David Thoreau
Percy Bysshe Shelley
43. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
pronoun
symbol
Edgar Allan Poe
Characterization
44. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
Anne Frank
John Keats
verb
45. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963); 'The Road Not Taken' 'Fire and Ice' 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
active verb
Andrew Marvell
short story
Robert Frost
46. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Simile
couplet
line graph
Edgar Allan Poe
47. Expresses action or state of being
metaphor
verb
symbolism
pie chart
48. Extreme exaggeration
John Donne
Cliche
hyperbole
Irony
49. A word that takes the place of a noun
appeal to emotion
pronoun
short story
prepositional phrase
50. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
C. S. Lewis
Participle
chronological sequence
Foreshadowing