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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. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
George Herbert
John Donne
appeal to emotion
J.R.R. Tolkein
2. 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
simple sentence
Scaffolding
adverb
Zora Neale Hurston
3. 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
Allusion
Analogy
C. S. Lewis
apostrophe
4. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
J.R.R. Tolkein
pie chart
appeal to emotion
5. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
John Keats
J. D. Salinger
Zora Neale Hurston
6. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
pronoun
compound complex sentence
personification
Ray Bradbury
7. 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
metaphor
J.R.R. Tolkein
John Keats
extended metaphor
8. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
synecdoche
persuasive
Anne Frank
sonnet
9. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
novel
line graph
Henry David Thoreau
George Orwell
10. 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
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
symbol
Harper Lee
11. 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
Anne Frank
Metaphysical poets
allegory
Participle
12. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
mystery
passive verb
fable
pie chart
13. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
adverb
novel
free verse
Zora Neale Hurston
14. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
adverb
interrogative sentence
Participle
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. 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
tone
hyperbole
John Keats
Scaffolding
16. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
bar graph
appositive
voice
active verb
17. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
dependent clause
metonymy
conjunction
future perfect verb
18. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
pie chart
Modeling
Activating Prior Knowledge
Alliteration
19. A phrase beginning with a preposition
prepositional phrase
harlem renaissance
personification
infinitive
20. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
future perfect verb
spatial sequence
passive verb
21. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
verb
Foreshadowing
compound sentence
22. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
folk tale
infinitive
Scaffolding
Activating Prior Knowledge
23. A word that takes the place of a noun
pronoun
couplet
elegy
Willa Cather
24. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
mood
J. D. Salinger
dependent clause
pie chart
25. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
active verb
independent clause
Walt Whitman
line graph
26. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
noun
Mark Twain
metonymy
passive verb
27. Extreme exaggeration
Simile
hyperbole
pronoun
historical fiction
28. A worn - out idea or overused expression
J. D. Salinger
interrogative sentence
creative
Cliche
29. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
William Shakespeare
Imagery
Modeling
past tense verb
30. 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'
mystery
creative
Ralph Waldo Emerson
preposition
31. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
independent clause
Simile
Epic
present tense verb
32. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
sentence fragment
harlem renaissance
extended metaphor
proper noun
33. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Imagery
Dialect
Henry David Thoreau
Mary Shelley
34. A form of a verb that generally appears with the word 'to' and acts as a noun - adjective - or adverb; the uninflected form of the verb
adjective
novel
metaphor
infinitive
35. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
collective noun
sentence fragment
Cliche
interrogative sentence
36. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
William Shakespeare
science fiction
Jane Austen
Subject Verb Agreement
37. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
present perfect verb
folk tale
voice
John Keats
38. 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.
homophone
Percy Bysshe Shelley
F. Scott Fitzgerald
synecdoche
39. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
Foreshadowing
bar graph
chronological sequence
simple sentence
40. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Subject Verb Agreement
compound sentence
pie chart
voice
41. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
appeal to authority
George Orwell
metaphor
preposition
42. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
Subject Verb Agreement
point of view
Simile
43. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
present tense verb
metonymy
paradox
symbol
44. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Harper Lee
persuasive
expository
pie chart
45. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
couplet
appeal to authority
common noun
Zora Neale Hurston
46. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
line graph
fairy tale
adverb
voice
47. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
Imagery
C. S. Lewis
preposition
48. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
folk tale
future perfect verb
Participle
John Donne
49. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
compare and contrast
setting
Metaphysical poets
declarative sentence
50. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Maya Angelou
Foreshadowing
Mark Twain
style