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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Zora Neale Hurston
compound sentence
personification
persuasive
2. 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'
Subject Verb Agreement
Robert Frost
Epic
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. 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
John Keats
line graph
noun
Emily Dickinson
4. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Amy Tan
short story
past tense verb
folk tale
5. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
present tense verb
sentence fragment
Anne Frank
mystery
6. A word that takes the place of a noun
synecdoche
Simile
George Herbert
pronoun
7. A phrase beginning with a preposition
synecdoche
symbol
Scaffolding
prepositional phrase
8. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Transcendentalism
appositive
Mark Twain
fairy tale
9. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Henry David Thoreau
novel
appeal to authority
Participle
10. 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
Edgar Allan Poe
C. S. Lewis
Subject Verb Agreement
dependent clause
11. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
conjunction
Harper Lee
infinitive
12. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
Countee Cullen
common noun
science fiction
Irony
13. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Activating Prior Knowledge
extended metaphor
novel
voice
14. 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
verb
Robert Frost
Stephen Crane
Activating Prior Knowledge
15. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
adverb
past tense verb
persuasive
16. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Zora Neale Hurston
Building Metacognition
Antecedent
Walt Whitman
17. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
style
couplet
compare and contrast
Imagery
18. 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
present perfect verb
John Keats
John Donne
Activating Prior Knowledge
19. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
dependent clause
John Donne
Characterization
present tense verb
20. A worn - out idea or overused expression
complex sentence
imperative sentence
Cliche
point of view
21. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
fable
Walt Whitman
myth
22. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
science fiction
short story
cause and effect
past perfect verb
23. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
Zora Neale Hurston
Modeling
complex sentence
appeal to authority
24. 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.
exclamatory sentence
symbolism
fable
haiku
25. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Modeling
noun
metaphor
homophone
26. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Simile
George Orwell
Analogy
Modeling
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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Epic
Harper Lee
Building Metacognition
28. A sentence that asks a question
mood
myth
declarative sentence
interrogative sentence
29. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
British Romantics
Scaffolding
appositive
short story
30. 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).
Stephen Crane
fable
Edgar Allan Poe
participial
31. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
line graph
extended metaphor
short story
apostrophe
32. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
fable
simple sentence
Activating Prior Knowledge
tone
33. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Modeling
Dialect
Countee Cullen
common noun
34. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
voice
mystery
prepositional phrase
C. S. Lewis
35. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Irony
haiku
John Donne
Building Metacognition
36. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
compound complex sentence
paradox
imperative sentence
Ray Bradbury
37. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Andrew Marvell
Jane Austen
sentence fragment
Simile
38. A sentence that requests or commands
Alliteration
cause and effect
imperative sentence
collective noun
39. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
metaphor
Modeling
Willa Cather
future perfect verb
40. Expresses action or state of being
Cliche
Edgar Allan Poe
John Donne
verb
41. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
Mary Shelley
novel
free verse
Building Metacognition
42. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
couplet
creative
expository
haiku
43. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
historical fiction
active verb
Amy Tan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Jane Austen
infinitive
personification
Mary Shelley
45. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
synecdoche
Anne Frank
setting
British Romantics
46. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Maya Angelou
adjective
past perfect verb
Walt Whitman
47. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
past tense verb
sentence fragment
infinitive
dependent clause
48. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
noun
bar graph
Amy Tan
mood
49. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
synecdoche
mystery
style
proper noun
50. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
Alliteration
point of view
Scaffolding