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Praxis 2 English Literature
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1. Two consecutive rhyming lines
sonnet
couplet
extended metaphor
infinitive
2. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
Metaphysical poets
voice
sentence fragment
Transcendentalism
3. 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'
Dialect
compound complex sentence
fable
Henry David Thoreau
4. American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self - reliance - optimism - self - improvement - self - confidence - and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement; Wrote 'Self - Reliance'
present tense verb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Keats
compound sentence
5. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
compare and contrast
independent clause
Simile
metaphor
6. 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
Emily Dickinson
J.R.R. Tolkein
Harper Lee
7. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
compound complex sentence
Allusion
mystery
spatial sequence
8. 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
Walt Whitman
homophone
sonnet
Ray Bradbury
9. 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
Willa Cather
Metaphysical poets
Percy Bysshe Shelley
fable
10. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
legend
compound sentence
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
11. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
couplet
George Herbert
12. A worn - out idea or overused expression
infinitive
past perfect verb
Cliche
imperative sentence
13. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
sentence fragment
folk tale
metonymy
sonnet
14. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
exclamatory sentence
apostrophe
line graph
appeal to emotion
15. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Countee Cullen
Foreshadowing
present perfect verb
Transcendentalism
16. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
Participle
Activating Prior Knowledge
Imagery
future perfect verb
17. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
Cliche
harlem renaissance
folk tale
sonnet
18. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Diction
pronoun
apostrophe
J. D. Salinger
19. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
Mark Twain
Langston Hughes
free verse
adverb
20. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
compound sentence
sentence fragment
harlem renaissance
appositive
21. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
exclamatory sentence
expository
Jane Austen
George Herbert
22. 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
Andrew Marvell
complex sentence
Scaffolding
common noun
23. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
novel
Alice Walker
Emily Dickinson
compound complex sentence
24. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
George Herbert
J.R.R. Tolkein
harlem renaissance
line graph
25. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
past tense verb
Robert Frost
mystery
Questioning
26. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
compound sentence
Antecedent
adjective
Percy Bysshe Shelley
27. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
point of view
historical fiction
passive verb
Amy Tan
28. Extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
metaphor
Walt Whitman
Zora Neale Hurston
29. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
present tense verb
science fiction
exclamatory sentence
30. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
Simile
allegory
dependent clause
Harper Lee
31. 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
Metaphysical poets
metaphor
Harper Lee
chronological sequence
32. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
Percy Bysshe Shelley
present tense verb
appeal to emotion
Analogy
33. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
Cliche
Willa Cather
Stephen Crane
34. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Analogy
Mark Twain
Participle
Subject Verb Agreement
35. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
adjective
free verse
Modeling
hyperbole
36. 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
passive verb
fairy tale
John Keats
complex sentence
37. 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
sonnet
Stephen Crane
compound complex sentence
collective noun
38. 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
compound complex sentence
Herman Melville
persuasive
dependent clause
39. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
metaphor
John Donne
John Keats
Alliteration
40. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
past perfect verb
homophone
mood
passive verb
41. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
declarative sentence
Zora Neale Hurston
expository
mood
42. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
bar graph
Walt Whitman
interrogative sentence
John Donne
43. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
personification
chronological sequence
appeal to authority
44. Tell how things are alike and different
appositive
complex sentence
Irony
compare and contrast
45. 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
C. S. Lewis
chronological sequence
appositive
Stephen Crane
46. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Building Metacognition
science fiction
Irony
imperative sentence
47. verb that can be used as an adjective
Maya Angelou
collective noun
F. Scott Fitzgerald
participial
48. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
historical fiction
Diction
expository
Stephen Crane
49. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Anne Frank
homophone
paradox
synecdoche
50. A sad or mournful poem
appositive
elegy
preposition
collective noun
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