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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. 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
declarative sentence
Irony
Transcendentalism
Willa Cather
2. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
Activating Prior Knowledge
Walt Whitman
appeal to emotion
3. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Characterization
creative
compound sentence
4. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
historical fiction
synecdoche
passive verb
mood
5. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
spatial sequence
Zora Neale Hurston
6. 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
declarative sentence
sentence fragment
Walt Whitman
future perfect verb
7. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Harper Lee
short story
Epic
Anne Frank
8. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Willa Cather
harlem renaissance
short story
Anne Frank
9. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
John Donne
chronological sequence
line graph
noun
10. verb that can be used as an adjective
past tense verb
science fiction
participial
active verb
11. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
future perfect verb
Willa Cather
metonymy
apostrophe
12. 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
Subject Verb Agreement
cause and effect
complex sentence
Scaffolding
13. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
expository
Characterization
spatial sequence
C. S. Lewis
14. 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'
Questioning
Robert Frost
Herman Melville
active verb
15. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
dependent clause
free verse
pie chart
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
appeal to authority
Questioning
short story
Subject Verb Agreement
17. 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).
Langston Hughes
Characterization
compound complex sentence
Edgar Allan Poe
18. A phrase beginning with a preposition
prepositional phrase
John Donne
Characterization
exclamatory sentence
19. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
British Romantics
novel
Herman Melville
Imagery
20. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
harlem renaissance
Herman Melville
conjunction
appositive
21. Extreme exaggeration
prepositional phrase
novel
hyperbole
creative
22. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
sonnet
past perfect verb
passive verb
Maya Angelou
23. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
historical fiction
Langston Hughes
collective noun
bar graph
24. 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
metaphor
Cliche
dependent clause
Simile
25. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
present tense verb
Mary Shelley
C. S. Lewis
Edgar Allan Poe
26. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
future perfect verb
appositive
Building Metacognition
hyperbole
27. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
declarative sentence
legend
common noun
C. S. Lewis
28. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
exclamatory sentence
collective noun
legend
C. S. Lewis
29. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
mood
setting
voice
30. Expresses action or state of being
paradox
verb
persuasive
Ray Bradbury
31. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
mood
simple sentence
Participle
Characterization
32. 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
legend
preposition
dependent clause
Herman Melville
33. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
Participle
appeal to emotion
George Herbert
expository
34. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
setting
sentence fragment
tone
voice
35. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
proper noun
F. Scott Fitzgerald
independent clause
paradox
36. Was an English poet and playwright - widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre - eminent dramatist; major works include 'Romeo and Juliet' 'Othello' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
science fiction
cause and effect
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
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)
appeal to authority
Harper Lee
homophone
haiku
38. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
Ralph Waldo Emerson
free verse
homophone
39. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
symbolism
setting
chronological sequence
exclamatory sentence
40. 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.
Metaphysical poets
appositive
haiku
hyperbole
41. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
bar graph
dependent clause
myth
Alliteration
42. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
common noun
hyperbole
metonymy
personification
43. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
exclamatory sentence
hyperbole
compound sentence
voice
44. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
science fiction
collective noun
Zora Neale Hurston
infinitive
45. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
cause and effect
persuasive
Robert Frost
Alliteration
46. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialect
verb
participial
persuasive
47. 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
harlem renaissance
John Keats
C. S. Lewis
symbol
48. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Imagery
synecdoche
appositive
fairy tale
49. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
British Romantics
point of view
legend
Henry David Thoreau
50. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
synecdoche
homophone
compound complex sentence
haiku