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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize






2. Methods a writer uses to develop characters






3. Originated in late 18th century when poets wrote about nature and beauty - They contrasted the beauty of naure to the harsh reality of the world and cities after the Industrial Revolution - William Wordsworth - William Blake - Percy Bysshe Shelly - J






4. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition






5. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses






6. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events






7. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art






8. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot






9. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings






10. names a particular person - place - thing or idea






11. A short moral story (often with animal characters)






12. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible






13. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.






14. 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






15. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa






16. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb






17. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)






18. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things






19. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age






20. A verb that tells that something is happening now.






21. 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






22. Two consecutive rhyming lines






23. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'






24. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation






25. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)






26. 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'






27. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets






28. 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






29. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern






30. 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






31. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






32. A following of one thing after another in time






33. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought






34. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions






35. A sad or mournful poem






36. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')






37. 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'






38. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain






39. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another






40. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark






41. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)






42. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance






43. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work






44. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished






45. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'






46. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany






47. 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






48. Original and imaginative






49. Expresses action or state of being






50. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)